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Just one winner in Maryland visa ‘lottery’, leaving other crab processors worried

In January, 10 crab plants applied for permission to bring mostly Mexican women across the border to pick the crab meat sold in restaurants and supermarkets

By Undercurrent News | March 14, 2022 15:38 GMT
Steamed blue crabs in Maryland. Photograph by Jason Huffman.
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Only one of the 10 crab processors in the US state of Maryland that applied to the visa "lottery" was successful, leaving the rest worried about the future, reports Yahoo, citing the Baltimore Sun [...]

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