US will reimburse migrant workers from Mexico $6.5 million in missed salaries

Some 13,000 Mexican migrant workers are owed $6.5 million in unpaid wages, according to a tweet from the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs. The Mexican Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare is launching the H-2A Workers' Wages Recovery Program to ensure the workers can collect their compensation. The partnership will attempt to locate the migrant workers who are believed to have received less than the legally established salary from their employers in the United States. It is unclear who these workers were employed by when they failed to receive their full wages, and what years they were employed. The money was recovered by the US Department of Labor after it failed to locate the individuals in order to deliver their checks.