ATLANTA — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) supported a federal investigation that resulted in the indictment of five people for their roles in a scheme to exploit a nonimmigrant visa worker program. The defendants fraudulently obtained worker visas and smuggled aliens into the United States. The U.S. Attorney for Southern District of Georgia made the announcement.
According to court documents, Martha Aquino, also known as “Martha Patricia Resendez Sanchez” or “Marta,” 61; Evangelina Aquino De Galvan, 49; and Julio Cervantes, 38, all of Alma, Georgia; as well as Marco Cervantes, also known as “Chiquilin,” 41, of Rowlett, Georgia; and Juan Felipe Romero-Lopez, 31, an illegal alien from Mexico, conspired to exploit the H-2A visa program by fraudulently obtaining temporary visas to bring workers into the United States.
The defendants lied about where the workers would work and…
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