H-2A farmworkers Feliciano Velasco Rojas and Luis Guzman Rojas have reached a settlement in a federal case alleging violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.
Per the terms of the agreement, the specific details of the settlement remain undisclosed and this settlement does not constitute an admission of any claim against the defendants, according to a news release from the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, which represented the farmworkers in the case along with Farmworker Legal Services, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante and Farmworker Justice.
Gonzalo Peralta, a Michigan-based immigration lawyer and senior staff attorney at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC) in Grand Rapids, Mich., says Guzman Rojas and Velasco Rojas feel relief…