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Seasonal foreign workers fill critical landscaping jobs, enabled by easier access to visas

by Elizabeth Trovall
Apr 27, 2023
The number of available H-2B visas available nearly doubled in 2023, providing more people to carry out beautification projects.
Juan Pablo Alvarez Miranda, a seasonal landscaping worker from El Salvador, on the job at Houston's Hermann Park.
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping is cashing in on Trump team's news conference

by Janet Nguyen
Nov 9, 2020
Not to be confused with the Four Seasons hotel.
President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, speaks at a press conference in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia. The conference took place just minutes after news networks announced that Joe Biden had won the presidency.
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Americans don't want landscaping jobs

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 20, 2016
One in three Americans who have a lawn have paid a landscaper to maintain it. But few Americans want landscaping jobs and that's creating problems for the landscaping industry.
Landscape workers in Hesperia, California. 
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