Maryland Crab Houses Again Lose Visa Lottery For Immigrant Workers

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The hits just keep on coming for a number of Eastern Short crab picking houses as they were once again denied seasonal immigrant workers.
For more than two decades, the eight picking houses have depended on temporary seasonal workers from Mexico.
Every year, the government issues 66,000 seasonal workers visas. They used to be awarded when a business proved American workers would not do the needed jobs. But in a switch, the Trump Administration used a lottery to award busi