Immigration policy and the looming crabmeat crisis
Jazz ShawPosted at 8:01 am on May 4, 2018
Visa lotteries and crabs (or crabmeat). There’s a combination you probably didn’t see coming, but if you eat crab on a regular basis you’ll likely be aware of it soon.
This story features some Maryland seafood companies who are warning that crabmeat prices are almost certainly going to be skyrocketing this year. It’s not that the ocean has suddenly run out of crabs. Fishermen are still catching plenty of them. The problem is that they simply aren’t going to have the workers required to do the tedious chore of picking the crab meat out of the shells at their processing plants. As the Baltimore Sun explains this week, these companies have traditionally relied on an immigrant workforce, primarily from Mexico, who come into Maryland on work visas. Owing to a recent change in immigration policy, they won’t have the people needed to meet the normal demand for the meat of the tasty crustaceans.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/04/immigration-policy-looming-crabmeat-crisis/
