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What happened
Leo Salazar Express Forestry, Inc., Rick Thomas and Sandy Thomas Guest Worker H-2B Visa A delegation of seven individuals, including an Express Forestry manager, confronted the wife and sister of Hugo Martin Recinos, lead plaintiff in the case, seeking contact information for him. They attempted to bribe his wife, Maria, by offering more than $6,600 in return for his withdrawal from the case.
Response and intervention
United States District Court Eastern District Of Louisiana U.S. Department of Labor. Workers went to authorities http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/221/guest-workers-interviews.html At a November 30 hearing here on IJP's motion for emergency protection, Maria testified that the men indicated that her husband's continued participation in the lawsuit could pose a problem for his future employment in the U.S. and could result in family members being deported, jailed or even killed. http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=247 http://www.splcenter.org/legal/docket/files.jsp?cdrID=50 http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/221/guest-workers-interviews.html http://www.splcenter.org/legal/news/article.jsp?aid=159&site_area=1 http://www.splcenter.org/legal/docket/files.jsp?cdrID=50&sortID=0 a former guestworker from Guatemala, borrowed thousands of dollars to pay recruiting fees for a forestry job in the United States. "I had to leave the deed to my home," he said. "When I got to the U.S., I was always underpaid, living in small hotel rooms and working 10-hour days. The debt from my recruitment and travel to the States made the low pay even harder to bear. When I filed a lawsuit about the conditions, my family and I were threatened. The guestworker program was abuse from beginning to end."