WRIGHT COUNTY, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - An Iowa industrial egg supplier is denying allegations that it engaged in human trafficking or threatened immigrant workers with deportation in retaliation for their complaints.

In March, attorneys for six Guatemalan citizens sued Iowa’s Centrum Valley Farms and company manager Jose Cornejo in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.

The plaintiffs, all of whom lived in Belmond, Eagle Grove, Clarion or Webster City while working for Centrum Valley Farms, seeks unspecified damages for harassment, discrimination and retaliation; wrongful discharge; human trafficking related to forced labor; violations of wage-and-hour laws related to overtime pay, and violations of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.

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