Guest Workers Inc: Fraud and Human Trafficking

1. In 3-4 sentences, give us a basic overview of your Project Censored story, in your own words. Who are the major "players" in your story? What's the major "gist" of your story? Why might your story be "censored"?
The Project Censored story that I researched was “Guest Workers Inc: Fraud and Human Trafficking.” This section is about the current problem in the United States with employers taking advantage of immigrant workers. The immigrants fall into two categories of employees, H-2A for agricultural work and H-2B for non-agricultural work. Both of these programs find ways to give their employees less than promised and make them work long strenuous hours. A more current example used is the Hurricane Katrina workforce through the H-2B program, Signal Facilities imported employees to help. This story might be censored because of the terrible economic times, if it became mainstream then the US citizens would become enraged.
2. List FOUR details/facts about your PC story you feel are VITAL for citizens to understand.
“Through Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the H-2 program brought about 121,000 guest workers into the US in 2005, with approximately two thirds of those in the H-2B section.”
“H-2A program provides legal protections from foreign farm workers- such as a guarantee of at least three quarters of the total employment hours promised, free housing, transportation compensation, medical benefits, and legal representation.”
“In the process of attaining a H-2 guest worker visa, workers typically fall victim to bait-and-switch schemes that force them to borrow huge sums of money at high interest rates in order to land short term, low wage jobs.”
“Hundreds of guest workers from India, lured by false promises of permanent US residency, paid tens of thousands of dollars each to obtain temporary jobs at Gulf Coast Shipyards only to find themselves forced into involuntary servitude and living in overcrowded, guarded labor camps.”