Reply #69: A company I worked for legally employed around 150 on visas

[Nikia]

They needed around 200 workers for 3-5 months with the big months being September and October, months where most college kids are not able to work full time and construction work is still going on. This is a food processing plant. They all went back to Mexico after they were layed off, with some returning the next year. Another food processing company that I interviewed with also employed a large number of temporary workers on visa.
The company practiced this every year so their human resources people dealt with it. Most of the workers were from the same area of Mexico and knew each other there. From what I understand, a few of the workers were the main recruiters for the company.
I am all for expanding the number of visas given out, if there are more comapnies and positions that qualify, but companies need to follow the law: be temporary jobs by nature, wage regulations, advertise to try to attract American workers, workers get background checks, ect.