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Buttigieg proposes repopulating rural areas with immigrants
Agri-Pulse ^ | 08.13.19 | Philip Brasher and Delaney Howell

Posted on 02/12/2020 10:29:46 AM PST by Freedom56v2

Pete Buttigieg, (snip) proposed Tuesday to repopulate struggling communities by offering special visas to immigrants who agree to move to those towns.

The “community renewal” visas would be targeted to communities that have lost working-age population over the last 10 years as well as smaller cities that are lagging economically. Under the proposal, which is included in a rural policy plan Buttigieg unveiled while campaigning in Iowa, visa holders would be eligible to apply for green cards after living in the targeted community for at least three years.

“We have a plan to help grow jobs, to help grow population, and to help grow infrastructure that’s going to make sure that rural America can actually succeed going forward,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor told reporters during a stop at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.

Buttigieg said the visa proposal is based on the idea that depressed areas need “not just a job growth strategy but a population--growth strategy.” He emphasized that communities could choose whether or not to participate in the visa program.

Other proposals in Buttigieg’s plan overlap with plans released by former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and others.

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Buttigieg proposes offering financial incentives to farmers to encourage carbon-conserving practices. He also calls for tougher enforcement of antitrust laws to protect farmers from the market power of agribusiness interests, and he proposes steps to expand rural broadband.

Buttigieg wants the Justice Department to investigate the recent mergers in the seed business that combined Dow and DuPont, and Bayer and Monsanto.

“The growing market power of corporations—particularly among processing plants and seed companies—means that the reinvigoration of the rural economy depends on a new era of heightened scrutiny of corporate mergers,”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; immigration; refugees; visa
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To: Freedom56v2

They should call it The Replace the Whites Act.


101 posted on 02/12/2020 12:23:49 PM PST by euram
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To: Freedom56v2

Like the illegal who killed college student in Iowa?


102 posted on 02/12/2020 12:26:06 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

And if our newly arrived immigrant doesn’t like rural North Dakota and decides to move to Little Mogadishu in Minnesota, what happens? My guess is he lives happily ever after in Little Mogadishu, eventually bringing in his relatives.


103 posted on 02/12/2020 12:51:20 PM PST by Stevenfo
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To: PGR88
Hell yes he is exactly that; that's why he talks the same magical mumbo jumbo that 0 did as if no one's heard all that hopey changey bullhsit before.

Keep an eye on him...

104 posted on 02/12/2020 12:54:29 PM PST by OKSooner (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: montag813

Not great at all.............


105 posted on 02/12/2020 12:56:38 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

You are exactly right. He’s a shorter, lighter-colored, Alfred E. Newman-esque Obama with an honorable discharge.

The tip-off is that he’s making a threat with this idea. He is threatening those of us who want to be left alone, who don’t want his private perversions in our faces. He is calling us out, telling us that he is coming after us. His message, like that of the Poser-in-Chief BHO is that we can run, but we can’t hide.

Damn him and the horse he rode in on.


106 posted on 02/12/2020 12:57:06 PM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: Freedom56v2

No.
Just NO.


107 posted on 02/12/2020 12:58:21 PM PST by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: Freedom56v2

Sure, move a whole bunch of immigrants into areas where there aren’t a lot of natives. Sign them up for every possible government hand out. Watch them chase off the natives who are now grossly outnumbered, and set up mini versions of the hellhole countries they just left. What could possibly go wrong?


108 posted on 02/12/2020 1:01:00 PM PST by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: Freedom56v2

How to help turn Red states Blue - import people who will vote Dim.


109 posted on 02/12/2020 1:09:14 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli

How to help turn Red states Blue - import people who will vote Dim.


And give the immigrants green cards to boot :(


110 posted on 02/12/2020 1:24:06 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Freedom56v2

Oh sure. Because they already know how to live in poverty..


111 posted on 02/12/2020 1:24:17 PM PST by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: Rurudyne

Either or Butt never knew what he was going to purpose out of the gate...he just wants to run for President to promote LGBT and enjy the ride he never thought would get him this far.


112 posted on 02/12/2020 3:01:14 PM PST by caww
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To: Rurudyne

BTW rural areas generally vote Republican....putting foreigners and refugees in rural areas changes that.


113 posted on 02/12/2020 3:03:14 PM PST by caww
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To: Freedom56v2

How about they populate your beachfront property ya old jackass?


114 posted on 02/12/2020 3:05:54 PM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up. Particularly Mutt Romney)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes, Mayor Pete, the Moderate.......NOT!! And, I’m sure we would pay for their relocation, housing, schooling, medical, IPhones, TV’s etc. Yep, media, keep calling him a Moderate.....


115 posted on 02/12/2020 4:01:31 PM PST by 4integrity
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Worked really well in the Islamic Somali City of Minneapolis


116 posted on 02/12/2020 7:02:20 PM PST by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
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To: Stevenfo

And if our newly arrived immigrant doesn’t like rural North Dakota and decides to move to Little Mogadishu in Minnesota, what happens? My guess is he lives happily ever after in Little Mogadishu, eventually bringing in his relatives.


You must be reading ahead...That is certainly going to happen!!


117 posted on 02/13/2020 6:50:16 AM PST by Freedom56v2
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