guest worker
noun
: a foreign laborer working temporarily in an industrialized usually European country
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Businesses are seeking tens of thousands more guest workers than the federal government has made available, according to Labor Department data.
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ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
But even if guest workers arrive before crawfish season ends around June, Lawson says, the damage is done.
—Stephen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Two representatives in 2025 also tried to create a year-round agricultural guest worker program, for which there is no federal equivalent.
—Idaho Statesman, 17 Feb. 2026
The hope, Morrison said, was to encourage employers to bring in skilled workers via the permanent residency pathway, on the theory that immigrants with green cards would, by being on stronger footing, be less likely to undercut wages for Americans than guest workers did.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2025
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ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
But even if guest workers arrive before crawfish season ends around June, Lawson says, the damage is done.
—Stephen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Two representatives in 2025 also tried to create a year-round agricultural guest worker program, for which there is no federal equivalent.
—Idaho Statesman, 17 Feb. 2026
The hope, Morrison said, was to encourage employers to bring in skilled workers via the permanent residency pathway, on the theory that immigrants with green cards would, by being on stronger footing, be less likely to undercut wages for Americans than guest workers did.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2025
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“Guest worker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guest%20worker. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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