The crab processing plant owners on Maryland’s secluded Hoopers Island call it “The Lottery.”
They aren’t referring to the state-run sweepstakes, but to the U.S. government’s annual method of randomly selecting which businesses — crab companies, landscapers, resorts — will receive visas to hire the foreign guest workers they covet.
Like the Powerball or Pick 4 drawings, the seasonal worker lottery produces far more losers than winners. Especially this year.
