On May 6, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid's (TRLA) Javier Riojas, head of the organization's Eagle Pass office, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor at a hearing entitled, "Do Federal Programs Ensure U.S. Workers are Recruited First Before Employers Hire from Abroad."

Riojas, a former migrant worker, told the Committee about TRLA's lawsuit against three agricultural employers and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which it filed on behalf of 22 U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who were passed over for jobs eventually given to Mexican citizens under the federal government's H-2B program. The program regulates recruitment of foreign guest workers for unskilled non-agricultural jobs. TRLA accuses the employers of purposefully misclassifying the jobs as non-agricultural in order to avoid the more stringent recruitment requirements of the H-2A program, which governs recruitment for agricultural workers. The suit also criticizes the DOL for continuing to approve the employers' applications, "despite mounting evidence of visa fraud and U.S. worker discrimination," said Riojas in his testimony.