Current Events > Politico: let's bring back indentured servitude

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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/13/immigration-visas-economics-216968

This system should be wiped away and replaced with a system of citizenship sponsorship for immigrants that we call a Visas Between Individuals Program. Under this new system, all citizens would have the right to sponsor a migrant for economic purposes.

Heres how the program would work: Imagine a woman named Mary Turner, who lives in Wheeling, West Virginia. She was recently laid off from a chicken-processing plant and makes ends meet by walking and taking care of her neighbors pets. Mary could expand her little business by hiring some workers, but no one in the area would accept a wage she can afford. Mary goes onlineto a new kind of international gig economy website, a Fiverr for immigrantsand applies to sponsor a migrant. She enters information about what she needs: someone with rudimentary English skills, no criminal record and an affection for animals. She offers a room in her basement, meals and $5 an hour. (Sponsors under this program would be exempt from paying minimum wage.) The website offers Mary some matchespeople living in foreign countries who would like to spend some time in the United States and earn some money. After some back and forth, Mary interviews a woman named Sofia who lives in Paraguay.

Sofia, who grew up in a village, has endured hardships that few Americans can imagine. She is eager to earn some money so that she could move to her nations capital city and get some vocational training. A few weeks later, Sofia arrives in Wheeling, after taking a one-week training course on American ways. If things dont work out, the agency that runs the website will find a new match for Sofia, and Mary will find someone new as well.

While the program might seem crazy at first, it would not be that different from the existing H1-B program, except that individuals like Mary rather than corporations like Google and Exxon would sponsor the workers. Second, the program is not that different from the au pair program run by the State Department, nominally under the J-1 cultural exchange visa program, but in reality a nanny migrant-labor program used by upper-middle class American families.

A Visas Between Individuals Program would extend the benefits of these types of immigration programs to everyone, rather than just to corporations and the affluent. It would also achieve the goals of both sides of the immigration debatebetter than their own proposals do. Immigrants would no longer have special privileges to sponsor family members, while working-class voters would enjoy dramatic benefits.

According to our calculations, a typical family of four could boost its income by $10,000 to 20,000 by hosting migrants. The reason is that migrants to the United States usually increase their wages many times, allowing them to pay as much as $6,000 to hosts for sponsorships (and our average family could sponsor up to four visas, one for each member).

This financial benefit for working families would be a larger increase in income than they have received over the last 40 years of economic growth. (Median household income in the United States was about $50,000 in 1977 and is roughly $59,000 today.) At the same time, a Visas Between Individuals Program would be true to Republican free-market and small-government principles by drastically reducing the role of government bureaucrats, who would merely run security checks on migrants rather than trying to evaluate their likely contributions to the economy.

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title of the article is "What If You Could Get Your Own Immigrant?"

yeah we had that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
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That's pretty much what the H#-B program is already.

But really anyone should be able to sponsor anyone else, by assuming fiscal responsibly if that someone else screws up and would otherwise end up on public assistance. I have no idea where this live-in bit came from - did this guy watch too much Mr Belvedere as a kid?

But what if we don't want 'our own immigrant'?
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I'd rather just have them make my clothes in their own countries.
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I mean its all voluntary and not much different from something like WWOOFing to be fair
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I'm more a serfdom man myself.
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The problem with owning other people is that you then have to hire other people to police them, and it gets expensive quickly. Slavery is gone in this country, that's great, we can thank the Republicans for it, and I don't see why there's still people looking back.
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Bring back feudalism while you're at it
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ROBANN_88 posted...

Bring back feudalism while you're at it

Feudalism never left. It just puts on a different shirt every now and then.

The NYT hired a nazi sympathizer and politico does this. JFC
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the liberal media doesn't actually care about human rights and racism

Paper_Okami posted...

The NYT hired a nazi sympathizer and politico does this. JFC

Wapo also hired a dipshit today

https://splinternews.com/megan-mcardle-is-taking-her-ill-informed-technocratic-n-1822969895
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Antifar posted...

Paper_Okami posted...

The NYT hired a nazi sympathizer and politico does this. JFC

Wapo also hired a dipshit today

https://splinternews.com/megan-mcardle-is-taking-her-ill-informed-technocratic-n-1822969895

well you see. when women get old...

Antifar posted...

Paper_Okami posted...

The NYT hired a nazi sympathizer and politico does this. JFC

Wapo also hired a dipshit today

https://splinternews.com/megan-mcardle-is-taking-her-ill-informed-technocratic-n-1822969895

sigh
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