Not as Easy for Minors

According to Ronald Young, author of Immigration VISA Shortage Hits Minor Leagues with Player Shortages, while major league baseball players are usually easily accepted and brought over to the United States its not as easy for Minor leagues players. In Young's opening paragraph he states that minor leagues players are treated the same as summer hotel workers, seasonal timber laborers, and minor league hockey players due to the fact that they aren't able to get their H-2B temporary worker visas because there are certain restrictions enforced by the U.S. government. While major leaguers get P-1 Visas (P-1 applies to individual or team athletes, or members of an entertainment group (P-1B) that are internationally recognized. A maximum of 25,000 P visas are issued annually), on the other hand minors receive the H-2B which are usually for individuals who will be employed in non-agricultural positions which are seasonal, intermittent or that can be labelled a one time occurrence. Qualifying positions include those in the Hospitality, Restaurant, Tourism, Landscaping, Construction, and other unskilled worker categories. Obviously minor leaguers are not put on the same pedestal as there major league counter parts. For the most part of baseballs rich history there have been foreign immigrants playing without a problem. That changed drastically in March of 2004 when the government announced that there would be 13,000 fewer H-2B visas than in 2003 in which there were on 79,000 of the temporary visas. That was a huge blow fro baseball because those Visas were mostly being applied for early worker immigrants and being granted to them.
I personally believe that the author is arguing that with the restrictions and fewer visas, baseball will potentially miss out on some good foreign players. As Young mentioned there is plenty of competition for the Visas outside of baseball which will create a huge problem. I think another problem is that most of the organizations in baseball know that there is a shortage of the Visas so they all will be filing for the Visas early which create a huger problem than it already is.
I'm curious as to why there are restrictions now after it has been a breeze for baseball players to immigrate in the past. Young mentioned in the article the 9/11 incident but didn't specify if that was the cause of the restrictions or not. Is it that America wants more American players playing for our teams (I know that's something that could never be answered)? I think these questions and the details already attained will contribute to all the answers I may need for the larger research project that we have.
All in all, I think government should return the amount of Visas giving out to the normal number. They should also make it so that the rules for majors and minors be the same.