Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“It’s not the practice of hiring foreign workers itself that undermines the bargaining power of labor. It’s the utter dependence of the foreign workers, under the H-1B program, on maintaining the favor of their employer in order to stay in the country. … Bernie [Sanders] is right, so far as it goes; it amounts in practice to a form of indentured servitude. The problem is his framing and his understanding of the structural causality. It’s indentured servitude because of foreign workers’ dependence on the employer. Their dependence on the employer results, not from their being allowed to enter the United States, not because immigration is so easy, but because legal immigration is so hard that it requires an employer’s sponsorship.” (02/28/25)