the H1B program is not “free movement of labor.” it is one of several programs that exploit the fact that movement is not free across violently policed borders.
i remember this. it felt so pivotal, like a major historical turning point, and in the years that followed it seemed like people might finally start to have compassion for us, care about our deaths—and now we’re the culture war du jour and the deaths of girls like leelah are law.