The 2025 SEA Strategy Session and Retreat, hosted by SEA members Peter Foster and Erika Christie, will be September 9-12, 2025 in beautiful York Harbor, Maine at the Stage Neck Inn. This meeting is strategically timed at the start of the 2026 H-2B season. By mid-September, we should have a...
Trusted Recruiters for Northern Central America
BACKGROUND: On January 20th, President Trump signed an executive order titled Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid. As a result, USAID staff were ordered to halt all current programmatic activities while “reviews of each foreign assistance program shall be ordered by the responsible department and agency heads under guidelines provided by...
2025 Mar-a-Lago Seasonal Employer PAC Fundraiser
The Seasonal Employer PAC invites you to join us for a cocktail reception and dinner on Thursday, March 13th, 2025, at the historic Mar-a-Lago Club in beautiful Palm Beach, FL. The event will be headlined by Trump's close friend Senator Tommy Tuberville. Other VIPs to be announced as well. This...
What are the differences between the H-1B and H-2B programs?
On Christmas Day Elon Musk ignited a firestorm on X with a post that advocated for the doubling of H-1B visas. This set off a firestorm within the MAGA base. Steve Bannon, Jack Posobiec and others called for the outright ban of the H-1B program, calling it a form of...
With Mass Deportation on the Horizon, America’s H-2B Worker Program Can Fill the Employment Gaps
The incoming Trump administration is inheriting an immigration crisis. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, there have been over 8.7 million encounters at the Southern Border since President Biden took office. And it is likely that millions went undetected, meaning the number of unauthorized crossings during the Biden...
December 2024 H-2B Fly-In
We will be hosting a D.C. H-2B Fly-In on Monday, December 2 and Tuesday, December 3. The current government funding bill expires on December 20. This fly-in is strategically timed during the negotiation on the FY25 omnibus spending bill. This bill is our vehicle for our H-2B language and it...
SEA’s 2025 Labor Forum (January 28-30, 2025)
SEA is excited to announce our inaugural labor forum January 28-30, 2025, in the historic downtown of Las Vegas, NV. For our first time ever, SEA will convene numerous H-2B vendors to allow our employer members in-person access to companies who provide products and services that will improve and grow...
Correcting the Record on NumbersUSA’s Misleading Claims on Harris H-2B Amendment
For over thirty years, America’s H-2B nonimmigrant visa program has permitted employers to hire nonimmigrants on a temporary basis to perform nonagricultural labor or services in the United States. The H-2B program has a history of bipartisan support because it is a legal option that allows seasonal businesses to support their year-round American...
SEA 2024 Strategy Session and Retreat – Bay Harbor, MI
The 2024 SEA Strategy Session and Retreat, hosted by SEA board member Sonja Skerbeck and Mackinac Island hotelier Sam Barnwell, will bring together SEA Leadership and the leading H-2B strategists. This meeting is strategically timed after prior to the 2024 election and the start of the 2025 H-2B season. By...
May 22, 2024 H-2B Fly-In
We MUST obtain greater H-2B cap certainty prior to the 2024 election. To this end, we are co-hosting an H-2B Fly-In on May 22nd. It is timed to be shortly before the House FY25 DHS Appropriations mark-up hearing. This is a critical fly-in and our goal is for 150+ employers...