By David North on January 18, 2024
As children we were told not to send coal to Newcastle on the grounds that that little British community (and one-time mining town) had all it needed and more.
Now Joe Biden (former member of the New Castle County Commission in Delaware) is about to let Chinese “tourists” get visa-free travel to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) north of Guam. The grant would not relate to the rest of the U.S., just to that U.S. territory, whose labor market has been dominated by foreign workers from China and the Philippines for years, both legal and illegal.
CNMI already has a loose labor market because there is a (Chinese- and Filipino-dominated) foreign worker program that applies only to those islands, the CW program, and that program is under-subscribed, as we noted earlier.
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