Importing workers should only be allowed when the unemployment rate in a given area is below a certain point.  Why are we paying welfare to able bodied adults and importing workers?  I know of local kids who would drive up to Denali to work for the week and drive home on the their days off, or take a bus.  I also met a J-1 visa worker in a restaurant in Anchorage.  He was very nice, but I wondered if a local college kid or other young person was now unemployed because of him.