It is 1,700 pages, after all. It takes hours to even figure out what it
means because it is so complicated in language. But this is what it does: It takes jobs away from American workers
and abuses the immigrants that come into this country. In the past 10 years, the Department of Labor has found 800
employers--800--that have abused 23,000 guest workers--everything from
stealing their wages, demanding bribes for their visas, and even sexual
abuse--and those are only the ones that have been caught. That is
because unlike American workers, these immigrant workers cannot leave
their job. If they are fired, they go back to their home country, where
they often have huge families who are depending on them for their
remittances. Their employers know that, and they take advantage of
them. It is a newfangled form of indentured servitude. Some people in this institution complain about the way Arab countries
treat guest workers from South Asia and Southeast Asia. The conditions
under which some of these H-2B workers operate are hardly much better. They live in filth and squalor. They are charged exorbitant fees for
their housing and for their food. The employers largely get away with
it because they know that these immigrant workers will not complain. They will not go to the authorities. They will not report it to the
Department of Labor because if they do, they go back to their home
country. Those are just the immigrant workers. What about the American
workers? There are a lot of reasons why unscrupulous American employers
favor temporary guest workers.
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