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I also wonder why a country that has such a high interest from foreigners wanting to live in it, dont create a special immigration policy, where it would accept

I also wonder why a country that has such a high interest from foreigners wanting to live in it, dont create a special immigration policy, where it would accept highly educated workforce, as long as they are willing to live in places like Detroit, so those sort of cities could be eventually recovered.. Something like grant citizenship, but only if they accept to not migrate to anywhere else for lets say, 10 years. The government would then choose particular spots that could possibly get back from the dead, like Detroit.

sirkneeland 11y ago
A nice idea, but in US politics, what should be two discrete issues (attracting skilled labor and managing the inflow of unskilled labor) have somehow become hopelessly intertwined. One is regularly held hostage to the other whenever an attempt is made to resolve it. (This is a gross oversimplification of course, but that's why this post is the length of a paragraph and not a 300 page book)
- oscargrouch 11y ago
  Yes, im sure a idea like this this would need much more work, and research, to see even if its reasonable, then if it would be considered to be possible, a lot of little details would need to be solved, to make things really work out. Im sure this is a very tricky issue.. But if the US government would be really willing to do something like this, which i think is really unlikely in reality, they might sophisticate ideas like this further down, and maybe get experiments like this to work well, and solve some hard problems along the way. You would be basically, importing "human energy".. Also of course, maybe start small, and try to attract locals from other regions first, making some things easier, like credit.. anyway this is getting out of control here.. heh, stopping now before is too late.
beachstartup 11y ago
because the people who live in those kinds of areas are the least likely to want a bunch of foreigners around.
rdl 11y ago
We sort of do that -- if you make a business investment in certain enterprise zones (poor, usually black, areas), it counts "more" for immigration/green card than if you make other kinds of investment. These programs change over time, though.
rdl 11y ago
We sort of do that -- if you make a business investment in certain enterprise zones (poor, usually black, areas), it counts "more" for immigration/green card than if you make other kinds of investment. These programs change over time, though.

sirkneeland 11y ago

A nice idea, but in US politics, what should be two discrete issues (attracting skilled labor and managing the inflow of unskilled labor) have somehow become hopelessly intertwined. One is regularly held hostage to the other whenever an attempt is made to resolve it. (This is a gross oversimplification of course, but that's why this post is the length of a paragraph and not a 300 page book)

oscargrouch 11y ago
Yes, im sure a idea like this this would need much more work, and research, to see even if its reasonable, then if it would be considered to be possible, a lot of little details would need to be solved, to make things really work out. Im sure this is a very tricky issue.. But if the US government would be really willing to do something like this, which i think is really unlikely in reality, they might sophisticate ideas like this further down, and maybe get experiments like this to work well, and solve some hard problems along the way. You would be basically, importing "human energy".. Also of course, maybe start small, and try to attract locals from other regions first, making some things easier, like credit.. anyway this is getting out of control here.. heh, stopping now before is too late.

beachstartup 11y ago

because the people who live in those kinds of areas are the least likely to want a bunch of foreigners around.

rdl 11y ago

We sort of do that -- if you make a business investment in certain enterprise zones (poor, usually black, areas), it counts "more" for immigration/green card than if you make other kinds of investment. These programs change over time, though.

rdl 11y ago