Helder H-2B. A Guest Worker Program Model - 18 December 2025

Above: First Tracks Coffee, Stein Eriksen Lodge, Deer Valley, UT. 16 December 2025.
Mwah (sic) and H-2B visa holder, Stein Eriksen barista, Helder, from El Salvador.

Helder's work in the US, IMHO, is a good model for how a significant portion of current illegal immigrants in the United States might be integrated into a guest worker program rather than being deported. No path to citizenship. Employer sanctioned three-year renewable. I have previously used Emirates as an example for successful guest worker programs.

Helder's wife and kids live in San Salvador. Wife works part time. Helder feels he needs three more years of H-2B work in order to have enough saved to open a coffee shop in San Salvador. Asked how he feels about Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, notorious for taking a hard line on law and order, he says Salvadorans love Bukele.