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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: StAnDeliver

I’ve been to South Bend. Get away from the downtown core and the Notre Dame campus, and the rest does not impress.


61 posted on 02/12/2020 10:52:40 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Freedom56v2

He’s a nightmare.


62 posted on 02/12/2020 10:52:42 AM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: PGR88
" Is there more info on this?"

Yes sir!

Here five-former-obama-ambassadors-back-buttigieg

And here pete-buttigieg-ambassador-support

63 posted on 02/12/2020 10:54:40 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: StAnDeliver

He learned it as the knee of communist Norte dame professor


64 posted on 02/12/2020 10:54:48 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
People choose to live someplace....or not live there....based on economic factors. Let the market decide.

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.

65 posted on 02/12/2020 10:55:51 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Freedom56v2

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.


66 posted on 02/12/2020 10:56:29 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Rurudyne

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.


67 posted on 02/12/2020 10:57:01 AM PST by caww
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To: Freedom56v2

“It isn’t ethnic cleansing when we do it.”


68 posted on 02/12/2020 10:57:03 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: chronicles
thriving community of immigrants from Russia

So what? I'll bet they are ALL DEMOCRATS.

69 posted on 02/12/2020 10:57:08 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

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!!


70 posted on 02/12/2020 10:57:59 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: central_va

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.


71 posted on 02/12/2020 10:59:03 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It’s not sad it’s greed. POS libertarian trade policies the have just about taken down the USA.


72 posted on 02/12/2020 10:59:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Freedom56v2

Dims broke many urban parts of America..now buttman wants to do the same to rural America.


73 posted on 02/12/2020 10:59:25 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Freedom56v2

So instead of offering a solution to the rural flight of our children you would just replace them with uneducated immigrants.... Got it.


74 posted on 02/12/2020 10:59:39 AM PST by lakeman (Semper Fi)
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To: caww

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


75 posted on 02/12/2020 11:01:31 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: PGR88

His background is getting some traction but not enough!


76 posted on 02/12/2020 11:03:02 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: the_Watchman

“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.


77 posted on 02/12/2020 11:03:14 AM PST by Rebelbase (Time for Trump to go Machiavelli on the democrats and never Trump republicans.)
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To: lakeman

The solution is a really high protective import tariff. But Republicans can’t seem to get behind that.


78 posted on 02/12/2020 11:03:44 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Freedom56v2

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.


79 posted on 02/12/2020 11:04:41 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Freedom56v2

You mean like, put them on reservations?


80 posted on 02/12/2020 11:04:43 AM PST by rivercat
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