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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I’ve been to South Bend. Get away from the downtown core and the Notre Dame campus, and the rest does not impress.
He’s a nightmare.
Yes sir!
Here five-former-obama-ambassadors-back-buttigieg
And here pete-buttigieg-ambassador-support
He learned it as the knee of communist Norte dame professor
My opinion is that re industrializing the USA's heartland will be good for both the economy and good for the people of America. Then again I am Patriot and some here are not. Their allegiance is to the world, their wallet and their 401K.
Ah another Merkel in the making. Import dangerous criminals but don’t let the city folk suffer. Make the ones who reject the criminals suffer.
He needs to ask European countries how that worked with their refugees and immigrants who did likewise.......they agreed to the ‘deals’ and then moved into the cities.
“It isn’t ethnic cleansing when we do it.”
So what? I'll bet they are ALL DEMOCRATS.
Same thing with their abortion strategy — convince American women that they should kill their babies, and then ramp up immigration to bring in millions of people from Mexico, Central America and S America. Where are the workers?? We need workers!!
I think montag was being tongue in cheek, especially in his comment concerning Eastern Europe being represented as a “minority”. He might have mentioned South African “whites” as well.
It’s not sad it’s greed. POS libertarian trade policies the have just about taken down the USA.
Dims broke many urban parts of America..now buttman wants to do the same to rural America.
So instead of offering a solution to the rural flight of our children you would just replace them with uneducated immigrants.... Got it.
The proposal is about changing demographics anyway. He wants people he thinks will be dependent on government to become a majority in places where people fancy themselves still free Americans are still a thing. /Captain Obvious
His background is getting some traction but not enough!
“So Buttigieg wants to bring immigrants into the rural communities that are struggling in order to compete for the declining jobs!!”
No. It’s about changing the voting demographic of rural America.
The solution is a really high protective import tariff. But Republicans can’t seem to get behind that.
Kids leave rural America in order to find education and work. It’s not complicated at all. Want a job that pays a good wage? You gotta leave.
You mean like, put them on reservations?
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