Monday 23 January 2023

Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare

These workers were promised green cards following Hurricane Katrina. Instead they were issued temporary visas that bound them to a single employer.

After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history."

(Image credit: Courtesy of Ted Quant/Workman)



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