Supposing you were given several months and a staff of 12 (some part-time) to write a 44-page report on the history of America’s Black population.
Do you suppose that the product would avoid mentioning: 200 years of slavery, Jim Crow laws, the Ku Klux Klan, poll taxes, lynchings, discrimination in the workplace, and the murder of Martin Luther King? And if it did, do you suppose that a responsible organization would publish it?
The Government Accountability Office has pulled off a similar literary feat in its recent report on foreign workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) in the western Pacific, just north of Guam.
You would never know from reading it that no other jurisdiction under the U.S. immigration law ever had such a huge portion of its workforce as nonimmigrant workers, that their presence on the islands has severely reduced wages and compromised working conditions for citizen and green-card workers, that CNMI, alone of the states and territories, has a particularly exploitative foreign worker program all its own, or that there is a substantial illegal alien population that makes matters worse.
Nor is it mentioned that without expensive federal subsidies, there would be virtually no economy. There is next to no manufacturing or serious agriculture in the islands, no mines or mills, and the last couple of years the tourist industry has had to get along with virtually no tourists because of Covid. Another set of islands, given this...
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