Mexican crab pickers quietly work in Maryland as immigration debate rages

Since the 1980s, every year hundreds of workers have left their homes in Mexico to travel thousands of miles to the Eastern Shore to fulfill jobs in Maryland’s crab industry under temporary visas.
It is a sensitive time politically both for the workers, who are nearly all women and for the H-2B visa program. Crab processors and other businesses say the program’s popularity demonstrates what Americans are willing - and unwilling - to do in a favorable economy and how the nation relies on foreign workers to fill employment gaps, particularly in low-wage service jobs. Two women from very distinct towns in Mexico share what life is like on the remote Hoopers Island. (Video: Thalia Juarez/Baltimore Sun)
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