Mario Garcia v. The Secretary of Labor

BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from the district court’s reversing the decision by the Secretary of Labor that farm labor contractor Mario Garcia knowingly employed illegal aliens, in violation of 29 U.S.C. § 1816(a) (repealed 1986), turns on the Secretary’s interpretation of that statute and the sufficiency of the evidence supporting that decision, which was contrary to that reached by the Administrative Law Judge. We AFFIRM.

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Garcia provided workers for several farm owners in the “Lower Valley” region of El Paso County, Texas. In the spring of 1985, the Department of Labor began an…