Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour

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90. I described the reality of areas mentioned

and an instance of workers and others facing a potential crisis without a manager's assistance. The latter is a poor reflection on the employer and the corporate management, not the employees.

Historically people of foreign origin move for economic opportunity, education or refuge from unstable governments, the case with my son's fiancé who is Indian and my sister's family in FL that is Cuban American. Other family white and black came from Europe and Africa many years ago.

As I've read, and know of from friends from South Asia who are working on H-1B visas, employers exploit employees through uncompensated overtime work and other negative conditions knowing they are in need of income, their visa status and vulnerability. The abuse also occurs among non foreign workers unfortunately.

There's been a large increase in migration since 1990 when the H-1B visa program was set up as reflected in the geographic areas I mentioned and elsewhere I the US. It's a fact that there are many foreign workers in jobs around DC, suburban VA & MD, the case with many large urban centers. The move toward a more diverse, multi ethnic, multiracial US is underway, built on centuries of those who came before also seeking advantages and opportunity.

No 'six figure salary' here (not all metro DC has streets paved with gold. nice myth though).
No 'racist framing' here.
No 'THEY'RE taking our jobs' here.
Might want to check assumptions, generalizations, racism and classism judgment.