“I’m far, far to the left” politically, she said. “I voted for Obama twice, [and I] believed in the ARRA […] I was so thrilled to have the opportunity to work there.”
As the director of human resources at Abengoa’s construction and engineering subsidiary, Evanson immediately began to see hiring practices that she knew were illegal.
“It started right away,” she said. “They started bringing people from Uruguay and Spain who didn’t have a visa in the U.S.”
Abengoa is a Spanish company. According to Evanson, who worked at the company’s facilities in Arizona, it went out of its way to hire Spanish or South American employees, even for positions that could have been filled by American workers.
“Over the three years I was working for them, we’re talking about hundreds of people [working without visas], not just a couple. Probably three or four hundred people,” she said.
