Migratory visa measure taken for wild ride

Racetracks, carnivals and traveling circuses are bracing for shorter circuits this season as Congress remains entangled in the renewal of a migratory worker visa program.

Businesses across the nation are pleading with lawmakers in a grass-roots effort to renew an extension in the H-2B visa program that allows returning workers to enter the country without being counted toward the program’s 66,000-person limit. The program provides visas for all sorts of seasonal workers, from amusement ride operators to horse grooms.

Circus Chimera, a traveling circus, has already scuttled its entire 100-city tour, running February through October. Owner Jim Judkins is now turning his efforts toward lobbying Congress to extend the visas, after the loss of half his summer immigrant staff forced him to lay off full-time American employees. “*

*From: http://www.politico.com
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