BROWNSVILLE — The owners of a South Texas bakery accused of illegally hiring undocumented immigrants were also housing their employees next to the business, a detail that a federal judge ruled was sufficient to charge the couple with harboring the workers.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen L. Betancourt ruled there was probable cause to believe that Leonardo Baez and Nora Alicia Avila-Guel broke the law by "harboring aliens" following testimony that the couple knew they employed workers who couldn’t legally work in the U.S. and sheltered them in an apartment adjacent to their business.
