Another thing to toss into the mix... the immigrant housekeeper in the US on a visa would be working on a H-2B visa. https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-unite

Another thing to toss into the mix... the immigrant housekeeper in the US on a visa would be working on a H-2B visa. https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-workers/h-2b-temporary-non-agricultural-workers https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary... These are temporary and are at most 3 years. There is similar "if you don't have a job, you leave." Add in the 2016 through 2020 was less favorable to immigration. While past years, we haven't hit the visa cap for H-2B (like we do for H-1B), in 2022, applicants hit the cap ( https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/10/12/dhs-supplement-h-2b-cap-nearly-65000-additional-visas-fiscal-year-2023 https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/10/12/dhs-supplement-h-2b-cap-... https://www.marketplace.org/2022/12/14/the-u-s-is-nearly-doubling-the-number-of-seasonal-worker-h-2b-visas-it-offers/ https://www.marketplace.org/2022/12/14/the-u-s-is-nearly-dou... https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134417921/could-foreign-workers-unlock-americas-tight-labor-market https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134417921/could-foreign-work... ) This means that in the past it was possible to reliably get people to work on the H-2B visa, and now you can't. Additionally, those "out of work" meant that people had to leave and start over reducing the pool of H-2B visa workers.