{"id":1765,"date":"2023-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaganimmigration.com\/visas-t-de-trabajo-y-esclavitud-moderna-en-los-estados-unidos\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:28:16","slug":"visas-t-de-trabajo-y-esclavitud-moderna-en-los-estados-unidos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaganimmigration.com\/en\/visas-t-de-trabajo-y-esclavitud-moderna-en-los-estados-unidos\/","title":{"rendered":"T Work Visas and Modern Slavery in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alicia Atteberry<\/strong> \u201cThe American dream is a powerful attraction for destitute and desperate people worldwide, and where there is need, there is greed from those who will try to exploit these willing workers for their own obscene profits.<\/em> In November 2021, US federal agents raided a blueberry farm in Georgia as part of an operation called \u201cBlooming Onion.\u201d The agents were not there to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants. Years of investigation had told them what they would find: workers kept in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions and forced to keep working through threats of deportation and violence. These workers were brought to the United States under false pretenses, then underpaid and mistreated. The US Department of Justice said more than 100 people were freed from 20 locations across the state of Georgia, all as part of an organized crime operation that profited millions of dollars from human trafficking and forced labor. Eagan Immigration is proud to have recently accepted a client who was freed from one of these locations. He has now begun the process of obtaining legal status in the United States through a T Visa application based on his experiences. The reality is that, although we think of slavery as a thing of the past, many people today work or live in conditions where their freedom has been taken away from them. U.S. Department of Justice Human Trafficking Hotline.<\/a> received 50,123 calls, text messages, and other messages in 2021 alone. Even in the United States, which prides itself on its values of liberty and justice, law enforcement struggles to protect vulnerable people, including the thousands of migrants who come every year from Latin America to work and seek a better life. When they come without documentation, they are at a higher risk of being exploited. One of the tools our government uses to help combat human trafficking is what we call a \u201cT Visa.\u201d Officially, \u201cT Nonimmigrant Status\u201d is not a visa, but an immigration benefit created to help victims of human trafficking in the United States and to ensure they can safely identify their traffickers to law enforcement. In the broadest definition, undocumented immigrants currently in the United States who have been led to believe they had to continue working or providing services despite abusive circumstances that made them want to leave may qualify for a T Visa. Generally, victims are threatened, held captive in some way, and are not paid or are paid less than they are owed. To qualify for a T Visa, except under exceptional circumstances, you cannot have left the United States since the incident, unless it was part of the trafficking.<\/p>\n

What made our client \u201cBlooming Onion\u201d qualify for a T Visa? <\/strong><\/h4>\n