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,”
(Excerpt) Read more at agri-pulse.com ...
Keep in mind this plan would likely be implemented the first time there is a Dem in the White House :(
Where’s Pete been? They’re already doing that!
Oh, h no!
UGH! Warning needed.
Execute him for genocide.
Fixed it for you!
How in the heck will relocating illegal immigrants to rural America create jobs in those areas. The very reason why many rural towns in America are declining is because there are no jobs available for those who were born and reared there. Thus they have to leave to go find a job after graduating high school. Buttboy is clueless. Does he include South Bend in his plan. I hear that South Bend is in a decline as well.
If you read the article...This is NEW:
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.
Genius, isn’t it?
Replace unwanted Americans
With unwanted Third Worlders
There are a lot of towns in places like Kansas and Nebraska that had 2000-3000 folks back in the 40’s and 50’s that have dwindled to just handfuls now.
That happened due to big-picture economic forces. Sad in a way, but is it really so big a tragedy that we went to forcibly restock them with foreigners?
Some things are destined to go extinct. Like the Panda. Read up on its eating and reproductive habits, and you just have to ask yourself why it hasn’t gone extinct already.
Good point!
How about let people live where they want to.
... never mind that we need a holiday from immigration, maybe a decade would do, to give us time to absorb those already here...
The guy doesn’t have any agenda other than what he’s picking up along the way to ‘look like’ he does.....he never has details when asked and just rambles on and on about what else he wants to discuss.... he’s such a deceptive fraudulent underling.
Obama did likewise...Butt’s just coloring it in all the more.
In other words....Repopulate Red States.
Communists: the State rules you, tells you where you will live.,
There are no “moderates” among the DNC. It’s why so much looks far right wing to them.
The DNC don’t need no stinkin’ market.
Been nothing more than a service economy for rich Notre Dame students for at least the last 30 years.
“...We have a plan ..”
Shove it.
In our area of southern Missouri, we already have a thriving community of immigrants from Russia. They apparently belong to a Christian religious sect. They have businesses, are hard workers, and respect our laws. They didn’t need mayor Pete to import them.
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