NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Three people are facing federal charges for allegedly trafficking Mexican agricultural workers into forced labor on farms in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
The federal trafficking charges come just months after a settlement was reached between agricultural workers and a labor contractor and Virginia farm over alleged labor law violations.
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Las Princesas Corporation is a farm labor contracting company owned and operated by Martha Zeferino Jose, also run by her husband and her adult son, based in Washington, N.C., that recruited workers from Mexico to come to the U.S. on temporary H-2A agricultural visas…