Maryland Crab Industry Nervous About H-2B Visa Situation, Can’t Take Another Year With No Staffing
A meeting of Maryland’s crab industry processors and other stakeholders was held in Hooper’s Island last week, and the primary topic was concern over H-2B visas.
For years, Maryland crab picking houses relied on workers from Mexico who were highly trained, and would return each year to work at the same picking houses. That was possible because under prior laws, returning H-2B visa workers did not count under caps on total visas, and were not subject to the annual visa lottery...
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