The Wall Street Journal reports on a proposed plan to offer a Visas to foreigners who buy homes worth $5000,000 $500,000 or more in the U.S.
It's supposed to help the home selling market.
That may do wonders for bringing the upper-class immigrants here.
But will they take the agricultural field positions that their much poorer cousins abandoned in Alabama, and before all of the crops rot?
(And thanks to Editor of all things and all digits Jay for pointing the story out!)
It's supposed to help the home selling market.
That may do wonders for bringing the upper-class immigrants here.
But will they take the agricultural field positions that their much poorer cousins abandoned in Alabama, and before all of the crops rot?
(And thanks to Editor of all things and all digits Jay for pointing the story out!)
"The editor of all things and all digits" Jay points out that an extra digit has been added to the figure you quote.
ReplyDeleteShould be half a million dollars. $500,000. Still a nice chunk of change.