Here is an excerpt from a Jacobin column. Read the full op-ed here.

Every April 1, the government draws lots through various means to decide which employers will receive new visas for H-1B, a temporary work program that has caused serious harm to millions of workers over the past three decades.

The story of two American IT workers, Hank Nguyen and Judy Konopka, typical and instructive. Their employers, the University of California and Eversource Energy, used the visa program to replace them with indentured and low-wage H-1B workers, respectively, and then forced them to train their replacements before firing them to make matters worse.On the other side of the work schedule, software engineers Gobi MuthuperiasamyA college-educated H-1B worker from India has been sued by employers to prevent him from changing jobs while seeking better pay and working conditions.