WA apple company pays $2.25 million in civil penalties

Harrison Lee

Harrison Lee Jun 21, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>Broetje Orchards in Prescott paid $2.25 million to the federal government to settle allegations that it failed to adequately validate the eligibility of some of its employees to work in the U.S., according to Associated Press. Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency found that as many</p></h2>
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            <p>Broetje Orchards in Prescott <a href="http://mynorthwest.com/174/2769650/Apple-company-to-pay-225M-in-immigration-penalty?ref=avalancheghost.one">paid $2.25 million to the federal government</a> to settle allegations that it failed to adequately validate the eligibility of some of its employees to work in the U.S., according to Associated Press. Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency found that as many as 950 of the company’s workers may have been ineligible to work in America. The company did not admit to any legal violations.</p>
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Broetje Orchards in Prescott paid $2.25 million to the federal government to settle allegations that it failed to adequately validate the eligibility of some of its employees to work in the U.S., according to Associated Press. Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency found that as many as 950 of the company’s workers may have been ineligible to work in America. The company did not admit to any legal violations.

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By Harrison Lee

Harrison Lee is an editorial intern at Crosscut. He is a senior at Seattle Academy. He has had journalistic experience working with Microsoft in Bangalore, India. In Seattle, he produced an investigat