The "big" town near me has a summer festival that, among other things has a ride vendor with typical fair/carnival rides.
Typically the ride provider uses H2B visas to staff their rides and food trailers. My understanding is that they used Eastern European employees at one point, but for the last 10 years or so, has used mexican nationals. I can say that I've never heard anything bad about the Mexican employees, and they were here legally under H2bs so this NOT a illegal immigrant/Mexicans are bad thread at all.
But...this year, H2b visas have been significantly restricted, causing a significant disruption, and they had, as far as I could tell, and entirely U.S. citizen workforce, supplemented by hiring local high school kids.
I'm sure that sucked for the ride company, in that having to find, interview, background check, etc, a bunch of U.S. employees was unexpected. But, several of my friend's kids got jobs for the week, and everything seems to be going smoothly.
I know, its a single instance, but it seems like the restrictions on H2b visas this year is a good thing. Thoughts?