DEWITT, Iowa ( IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH ) - Seven migrant farmworkers from Texas claim they were recruited to work in Iowa where they were paid illegally low wages and forced to live in substandard housing.

The workers are suing Remington Seeds, which operates a seed-corn processing facility in DeWitt, and Javier Chapa, a Texas labor broker who runs Chapa Global Contracting. Chapa was allegedly hired by Remington to recruit, house and supervise migrant farmworkers in Iowa, Nebraska and Texas.

The Texas residents who are suing Chapa and Remington in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa are Homero Reyes, Manuel Ozuna Chavez, Luis Acuna, Antonio de la Rosa, Felipe Arevalo Gonzalez, Juan Antonio Cantu Gonzalez and Juan Lopez Escamilla.

Their lawsuit claims the defendants vio

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