This time, it’s welders and pipe fitters from South Asia, who were misled, and had to pay outrageous fees, to get H2B visas to work in the US:

The Indian workers say they were deceived by Signal International and labor recruiters when they paid as much as $20,000 for visas they believed would allow them to work and live permanently with their families in the United States. In fact, the H-2B visas are for short-term contracts.

They are now on a hunger strike.

I would note that this problem is not a bug in guest worker programs. It’s a feature.

The goal of guest worker programs is to create an underclass of cheap and easily exploited labor.