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A potato farm in Idaho "intentionally" violated H-2A visa rules and even threatened to fire guest workers if they didn't accept wages below the legal limit, according to the US Department of Labor (DOL).
Jorgensen Management, a potato farm in Bancroft, southeast Idaho, gave workers nearly $160,000 in unpaid wages after a DOL investigation.
The farm showed a "willful disregard for the law," in which it "created a toxic workplace and victimized these vulnerable workers," Carrie Aguilar, district director of the DOL's Wage and Hour Division in Portland, Oregon, said in a press release Tuesday.
Jorgensen Management could not immediately be reached for comment by Insider.
The H-2A program allows employers to bring foreign nationals to the US to temporarily fill agricultural jobs when they can't find enough domestic workers. The employers have to provide workers with transport to the US and housing.
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