[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.