Businesses Face Cut in Immigrant Work Force

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HYANNIS, Mass. — For years, William Zammer Jr. has relied on 100 seasonal foreign employees to turn down beds, boil lobsters and serve cocktails at the restaurants, golf course and inn he owns on Cape Cod and in nearby Plymouth.

This summer, however, the foreign workers will not be returning, and Mr. Zammer, like other seasonal employers across the nation, is scrambling to find replacements.

“It’s a major crisis,” he said. “We’re very short on work force. We’ll be looking at opening a little later, closing a little earlier, looking at how we do our menus.”

Mr. Zammer is caught up in a Congressional standoff over immigration overhaul that is punishing employers who play by the rules and that, advocates of change say, could cost small companies billions in lost business.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us/14visa.html?th&emc=th

[lligrd]

1. Poor Guy Is Going To Have To Pay Real Wages

and up the price of lobster a bit. What is the world coming to? :sarcasm:

[KillCapitalism]

2. Hey jackass, we have millions of unemployed here in the US.

Why not hire one of them?

[groovedaddy]

3. They say we cost too much... I say these greedy bastards cost US too much! n.t