Mint Juleps and Churchill Downs

work: Though they do their work a world away from the grandstand and Millionaire's Row, where fans will sip mint juleps, don fancy hats and cheer for their Kentucky Derby favourites on the first Saturday in May, immigrants have become indispensable at Churchill Downs and other tracks, people in the industry say, according to CTV. Now, fear is spreading that a Trump administration crackdown on immigration will be a calamity both for the tracks and for many of their workers. The quiet is broken when they speak to each other and the horses -- in Spanish. While there's widespread acknowledgement that some jobs go to undocumented workers, many trainers rely on the H-2B visa program to supply immigrant workers legally, and the tightening of that program has contributed to a worker shortage. But Dale Romans, the second-winningest trainer in Churchill's history, says he can't find American workers to do the jobs. Some argue that the presence of foreign workers has a downward drag on everybody else's income. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.