A Hispanic couple from California has been arrested for smuggling and exploiting Latin American asylum seekers. According to a federal report, the defendants housed the undocumented immigrants in their Simi Valley home, where they forced them to perform domestic labor and hand over money earned from outside jobs.
Carolina Rojas, 50, and her husband, Jairo John Gastelo, 45, have been charged with multiple forced labor offenses. Rojas was reportedly more deeply involved in the scheme and received additional charges for witness tampering, inducing illegal entry, and "giving immigration documents to unauthorized persons."
