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Migrant Visas: A Tiny Step Forward and a Huge Stride Backward
« on: January 15, 2021, 05:05:55 pm »
Migrant Visas: A Tiny Step Forward and a Huge Stride Backward
Saving three jobs but losing 1,266
By David North on January 14, 2021

The Trump administration, even its last days, continues to grind out new immigration rules, some better than others. In this case, there was another complex blow to citizen workers.

The latest ruling seems to involve discreet wrist slaps on three of the world's least powerful nations: Mongolia, Samoa, and Tonga; they used to be known as Outer Mongolia, Western Samoa, and the Kingdom of Tonga.

All of them will have their citizens barred from participating in the H-2A (farmworker) and the H-2B (non-ag unskilled labor) programs. Why? Because, according to a Law360 article, the nations had: "high visa overstay rates and noncooperation with [U.S.] deportation proceedings".

There are a number of nations that seek to stall the return of their own deportees, presumably on the rational (but unacceptable) grounds that these poor nations do not need an infusion of bad actors (even though they are always native-born bad actors.) They do so by refusing to issue passports to such people, and we will not deport passport-less people.

And how significant is the level of punishment?

https://cis.org/North/Migrant-Visas-Tiny-Step-Forward-and-Huge-Stride-Backward