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Let me guess which "non-trade barrier" isn't coming down: reciprocal work visas for EU and US citizens.
by officemonkey 11y ago
Let me guess which "non-trade barrier" isn't coming down: reciprocal work visas for EU and US citizens.
- rjsw 11y agoThe US could copy the EU and allow free movement of workers within NAFTA.
- cperciva 11y agoWe have that for skilled workers (TN status).
- rhino369 11y agoPolitically untenable. Mexico is a third world nation.
- rjsw 11y agoThere are several EU member nations with comparable GDP (PPP) to Mexico, their citizens can move to anywhere else within the EU.
- rorykoehler 11y agoWe still use the term 3rd world?
- nnq 11y agoyeah, and it's kind of the only reason why an ordinary EU or US citizen would find enticing in such a treaty... as an EU citizen, I'd almost swallow ISDSs for the short term benefits I would see as possible from this ...but it would be seen as indirectly putting more power in the workers' hands and not in the ones of the companies ... and we can't have more "socialism", can't we :)
- cperciva 11y agoBusinesses would love this, but the "those filthy immigrants are stealing our jobs" lobby is very powerful...
- officemonkey 11y agoBusinesses essentially do this now, because there's no real downside to hiring undocumented workers.