Fullmer Cattle Company

Title

Fullmer Cattle Company

Creator

Luvina Vilaprino Aguirre

Migrant Voices

"It is like slavery what they do to those poor people," said Rachel Tovar, another former worker who spoke to The Associated Press.

Property Type

Ranch

Company Title

Fullmer Cattle Company

Owner/Sponsor

Ty Fullmer; Que Fullmer

Location

Syracuse, KS

Product

Dairy and beef.

Working Conditions/Violations

  • No holidays
  • No health insurance benefits
  • No overtime pay
  • Immigrants buy their own safety gear
  • $1 an hour
  •  Debt peonage; immigrants are forced to pay off debt with work.
  • Deducted money from paychecks
  • Smuggling process of employment
  • Kept workers in debt by selling them old cars.
  • Loans for smuggling
  • Former workers say some employees live in company-owned trailers at the ranch or a nearby property, for which the company deducts rent.

Employer Citations

Fullmer pleaded guilty in 1999 in California federal court to a felony count of harboring and concealing immigrants in the country illegally. He was sentenced to six months of home detention, a $10,000 fine, and ordered to perform 500 hours of community service, court records show.

In December, he was charged with illegally casting election ballots in both Colorado and Kansas in 2016. The registered Republican is accused of voting more than once and other violations. The case is pending in Kansas.

Read about it here:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/immigrants-say-working-at-kansas-ranch-was-like-slavery

Que J. Fullmer is now facing four felony charges — two counts of voting without being qualified, one count of voting more than once, and one count of “advance voting unlawful acts.” If convicted of all of them, Fullmer faces steep fines and two years probation.

Read about it here:
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/kobach-fraud-charge-1eefa6b469d3/