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Maryland seafood processor fined $240,000 for visa fraud

The company sought prevailing wage determinations for several jobs and filed petitions for visas for only the jobs with the lowest wages

By Undercurrent News | Nov. 24, 2021 16:40 GMT
The Chesapeake Bay and Eastern Shore of Maryland. Photograph by Popartic / Shutterstock.
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A seafood processor in the US state of Maryland was fined $240,000 for illegally employing as many as 142 undocumented, foreign temporary workers as part of what a prosecutor called "a calculated pattern of visa fraud" over five years, WBOC-TV 16 reports [...]

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