[JoeAltmaier]

'Indentured'? I call hyperbole. Quit, go home. That's something a true indentured servant couldn't do.

Its 'something like' indentured servitude, except it isn't. It isn't slavery either. Nor torture or any number of other emotionally laden words we could come up with.

Its an employment deal. Its an immigration option. Others exist. Don't choose it if you don't like it.

[0xbear]

Educate us, which "others" exist? Also H1-B is a non-immigrant visa. You can petition for a green card after a few years, but there's no guarantee you'll get it.

I agree with the op, btw. To make things better for local workers, h1b workers should be offered greater mobility so as to create competition which properly values their skills. Earlier suggestion by the Trump administration that instead of a lottery only the highest paid h1b workers will be admitted sounds quite sane, too.

Disclosure: naturalized citizen, former H1B.

[xenihn]

>'Indentured'? I call hyperbole. Quit, go home. That's something a true indentured servant couldn't do.

What if they have debts to pay off at home, and it's the only realistic option available? Going home means not being able to pay those debts off.

[JoeAltmaier]

I get it; we all have to work. But piling up debts then having to work (somewhere) to pay them off - that isn't 'indentured servitude' either.

[eeZah7Ux]

Look up the definitions of servitude and slavery on a dictionary: they fit.