On Preakness Eve, SEA partnered with Horse Racing Equine Advocates Oscar Gonzales, Will Velie & Julio Rubio and the American Business Immigration Council for a behind the scenes look at legendary trainer H. Graham Motion's stable operations. H. Graham Motion trains roughly 200 horses, for various owners, including President of...
2026 SEA Labor Forum (February 3-5, 2026)
Join us for our Annual 2026 Labor Forum 2026 February 3-5, 2026, at the beautiful Lowes Ventana Canyon Resort located at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains in Tucson, Arizona. For our first time ever, SEA will convene in beautiful Arizona. Attendees should expect an action packed two days filled with...
SEA at Mar-a-Lago 2025 Recap
Thank you to the over 120 attendees of our Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser. It was an action packed two days. It started with a fundraiser for Representative Andy Harris (R-MD-1). Dr. Harris spoke about his efforts to get the Certified Seasonal Employer language into the reconciliation package and his new role as...
2025 SEA Fall Strategy Session
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. Join us for this meeting that has been strategically timed at the start of the 2026 H-2B season. By...
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...