Immigrant Daily

Suit Exposes Guest Worker Program Pitfalls

The latest testimony in a lawsuit filed by the Indian H-2B workers against the company, Signal International has brought the Guest Worker Program flaws to the fore. The Signal International hired these foreign workers with the help of U.S. and Indian recruiters, reports The New York Times. The company claims the recruiters misled it – and the workers – about the terms of the work visas that brought them into U.S. The recruiters have allegedly promised the workers that their visas would soon be converted to green cards, allowing them to stay permanently in U.S. Learning later that they have been trafficked and victimized, hundreds of Indian workers have brought a civil rights lawsuit against the company, claiming they were victims of human trafficking and labor abuse.

Thus, the Signal case has come to represent some of the flaws and pitfalls, for immigrants and employers, in the H-2B temporary guest worker program, compelling law makers to think whether or not to consider the expansion of guest worker programs.

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