Why Guest Worker Programs are a Bad Thing, Episode 7734

This time, it'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 to work and live permanently with their families in the United States. In fact, the H-2B visas are for short-term contracts.

They are now on a hunger strike.

I would note that this problem is not a bug in guest worker programs. It's a feature.

The goal of guest worker programs is to create an underclass of cheap and easily exploited labor.