Fair labour advocates have documented the increasing use of foreign labour recruiters (FLRs) by business owners to bring temporary foreign workers to the United States,1 and the associated fraud and abuse often permeating these practices.2 Many FLRs are complicit in the trafficking of workers: ‘[R]egardless of visa category, employment sector, race, gender, or national origin, internationally recruited workers face disturbingly common patterns of abuse, including fraud, discrimination, severe economic coercion, retaliation, blacklisting, and human trafficking … [T]hese abuses are systemic rather than visa specific.’3 Cases brought in federal courts chronicling FLR abuses are also increasing.4
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