{"id":195858,"date":"2008-06-09T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/why-guest-worker-programs-are-a-bad-thing-episode-7734\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T04:11:00","slug":"why-guest-worker-programs-are-a-bad-thing-episode-7734","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/why-guest-worker-programs-are-a-bad-thing-episode-7734\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Guest Worker Programs are a Bad Thing, Episode 7734"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/07\/washington\/07immig.html?ei=5087&amp;em=&amp;en=5f80dc83a146463b&amp;ex=1212984000&amp;pagewanted=all\">welders and pipe fitters from South Asia<\/a>, who were misled, and had to pay outrageous fees, to get H2B visas to work in the US:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Indian workers say they were deceived by Signal International and labor recruiters when they paid as much as $20,000 for visas they believed would allow them to work and live permanently with their families in the United States. In fact, the H-2B visas are for short-term contracts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They are now on a hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>I would note that this problem is not a bug in guest worker programs.  It&#8217;s a feature.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of guest worker programs is to create an underclass of cheap and easily exploited labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s welders and pipe fitters from South Asia, who were misled, and had to pay outrageous fees, to get H2B visas to work in the US: The Indian workers say they were deceived by Signal International and labor recruiters when they paid as much as $20,000 for visas they believed would allow them &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}