{"id":1983,"date":"2021-11-15T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:07:18","slug":"juez-federal-ordena-proporcionar-mas-de-1-dolar-por-dia-a-inmigrantes-detenidos-en-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/juez-federal-ordena-proporcionar-mas-de-1-dolar-por-dia-a-inmigrantes-detenidos-en-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge orders more than $1,441 per day provided to immigrants detained in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of detainees earned $1 a day for washing, cleaning bathrooms, and other jobs at facilities run by the GEO Group in Washington state, a company contracted by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GEO Group was registering millions of dollars in profits at the Northwest ICE Processing Center, so a federal jury in the U.S. District Court made an extraordinary decision that GEO Group should begin providing 1,441,730 retroactive payments to more than 10,000 former and current detainees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the jury&#039;s decision, Federal Judge Bryan issued a court order requiring the company to pay the state minimum wage ($13.69) to detainees participating in the Voluntary Worker Program going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legal measures employed by the jury and Judge Bryan were based on the following arguments: \u201cDetained immigrants are not criminals. In the U.S., people who have been convicted of a crime are exempt from state labor laws while incarcerated. In contrast, immigrants, who are detained while awaiting civil proceedings to determine whether they can remain in the U.S., fall into a different category and are therefore entitled to minimum wage for their work.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of detainees earned $1 a day for washing, cleaning bathrooms, and other jobs at facilities run by the GEO Group in Washington state, a company contracted by the government.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}