Company and owner guilty of migrant visa scam

A labor contracting company admits to bringing unauthorized migrant workers to Missouri.

On Thursday, Jorge Marin-Perez and Jorge Marin-Gomez pleaded guilty in federal court to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful employment of aliens. 

The Marin J. Corporation owned by Marin-Gomez pleaded guilty to a felony wire fraud charge in April. The corporation was in charge of requesting visas for workers in Mexico. 

The corporation applied for agriculture visas that declared more than 100 workers would be employed on farms in Florida. 

Many of the workers were then relocated to a farm in Southeast Missouri to harvest watermelons and cotton. 

The corporation is set to be sentenced in August and the people in September.