Raquel Trejo Rubio, a 28-year-old Mexican migrant, is among the 66,000 migrants who enter the United States legally as H2B Guest Workers.
H2B is a visa program that gives foreign workers access to minimum-wage, temporary non-agricultural jobs that employers say are not filled because the pay is low, the employment seasonal and the work often back breaking and tedious.
To qualify for H-2B nonimmigrant classification, the employer:* must establish that its need for the prospective worker’s services or labor is temporary - a one-time occurrence, a seasonal need, a peak-load need, or an intermittent need
* must demonstrate that there are not sufficient U.S. workers who are able, willing, qualified, and available to do the temporary work
* must show that the employment of H-2B workers will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of similarly employed U.S. workers
