Texas Shrimp Industry Crippled By Immigrant Visa Cap

BROWNSVILLE (AP) — The Texas shrimp industry is facing a worker shortage as a result of the federal cap on U.S. visas for immigrant seasonal workers.
Andrea Hance is executive director of the Texas Shrimp Association. She tells the Brownsville Herald that an estimated 70 percent of the Brownsville-Port Isabel shrimp fleet is starting off this season short-handed. The shrimp industry relies heavily on H-2B visa workers, which are limited by a decades-old law to 66,000 for the whole country.