[Sherman Logan]

We could end the HB-1 visa program which indentures the imported workers to the employer, often paying them a dollar or two an hour.

I don't think so. According to the Department of Labor, the employer is obligated to "Pay the nonimmigrant workers at least the local prevailing wage or the employer's actual wage, whichever is higher; pay for non-productive time in certain circumstances; and offer benefits on the same basis as for U.S. workers"

Not to say that the rules don't get broken, but those are the rules.

[khelus]

Re:We could end the HB-1 visa program which indentures the imported workers to the employer, often paying them a dollar or two an hour.

I don't think so. According to the Department of Labor, the employer is obligated to "Pay the nonimmigrant workers at least the local prevailing wage or the employer's actual wage, whichever is higher; pay for non-productive time in certain circumstances; and offer benefits on the same basis as for U.S. workers"

Not to say that the rules don't get broken, but those are the rules.

Those may be the 'rules' but they are neither honored nor enforced. To believe they are usually enforced is very naive in our current environment.

When corporate is determined to use neo-slave labor and the government looks the other way, there are many ways to 'skin a cat', just as their are many ways for 'guest workers' to avoid most or all US taxes on their salaries.