[sunshowers]

If someone is sexually harassed or assaulted while being on an H1B and becomes ill because of it, what should they do? People often have to take months off of work to recover from workplace sexual assault.

Any imbalance of power is a vector for sexual harassment, assault, or discrimination in general.

[dilyevsky]

You really are grasping at straws here. There are special visas/immigration status for these cases. Hard to believe I know but people who designed these policies aren't complete morons.

[sunshowers]

What special visa are we talking about? U visas have a high bar which workplace discrimination often doesn't meet.

It's not grasping at straws by the way. Perhaps no one has confided in you. I, personally, was sexually harassed and discriminated against while on an H-1B visa. I've heard many stories of women and non-binary people on work visas being harassed and powerless about it. Any power imbalance is a vector for this stuff (the formal term for this concept is "intersectionality"). As a society we ought to move towards less imbalance, not more.

> but people who designed these policies aren't complete morons.

Perhaps so, but that isn't enough to establish that the policies aren't bad.