Nearly 100 Indian workers, who claim they were lured to move to the US by false promises of permanent jobs, are planning to march to the White House and return their H2B visas in a symbolic rejection of the guest worker programme used to traffic them here. I saw this news on NDTV 24x7. The news channel had earlier covered the plight of the workers and this piece of news is a follow-up. The workers complained that they underwent ''slave-like treatment'' at a Mississippi shipyard, will also demand a Congressional investigation of their former employer Signal International.
Signal, a Northrop Grumman subcontractor that held them as bonded labourers and is already the subject of a criminal human trafficking investigation by the Department of Justice, a statement issued on behalf of them by the organisers said.
I prefer NDTV 24x7 over any news channel because it is the best news channel for NRIs as it provides the latest stories related to India. DirecTV makes it possible to access this channel in the US.
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