The Right to Crab

Nick Gillespie | January 24, 2005

"We're kind of dead in the water without those workers. We can't even reopen," said Harry Phillips, owner of Russell Hall Seafood on Hooper's Island.

That's from a Baltimore Sun story detailing the only real effect of arbitrary limits on visas for immigrants who do seasonal work such as processing seafood in Maryland is to shut down American businesses. Which is just great.

Whole story here. Full disclosure: The story is co-written by Rona Kobell, wife of Reason Managing Editor Jesse Walker.

The story illustrates something Glenn Garvin wrote about in Reason some years back: That many of the jobs performed by immigrants just won't get done by native-born Americans. That story here.