In late 2006, Saket Soni, then a 28-year-old community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of 500 men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast “man camps,” surrounded by barbed wire, watched by guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Recruiters had promised them good jobs and green cards. The men had scraped up $20,000 each for this “opportunity” to rebuild hurricane-wreck...| SAKET SONI