is the au pair program dead in a an ICE raid era?
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Anonymous
| Just curious- I've hosted au pairs for many years now -and I hear whole countries (like, Thailand) are banned from the program now - and I wonder if European au pairs even want to come to the US, given all the bad headlines in the news? Who from overseas wants to come to the US to be an au pair in a Trump era and fear of ice raids, deportation even with an au pair visa? Am I jaded? I feel like when my year with current au pair ends, it is going to be super hard to find any candidates on the database.... because... for real now...who would WANT to come to the US with this climate and in DC????? Any color from others?? |
Anonymous
| If I were the parent of a young woman living in another country, I would not let her come to the US and risk being thrown into detention. |
Anonymous
| I also would never want my children with an au pair that could get unlawfully detained even for a minute and have my kids go through that trauma |
Anonymous
| I don’t know…I think there are some potential au pairs that are unfazed by the immigration issues and the rewards still outweigh risk. |
Anonymous
| I think you'll still have a fair number of au pair candidates. Probably less than in previous years and certainly less from Latin American countries, but young people tend to think they're invincible so I don't think they'll be scared off. |
Anonymous
| Northern European. |
Anonymous
Or strip searched upon arrival at the airport. |
Anonymous
| If ICE can gut the au pair program then it will have done one positive thing |
Anonymous
A Czech colleague was detained then deported by ICE. |
Anonymous
And? |
Anonymous
| People have always and still to this very day come here legally to work. How is this an unknown to some of you is beyond any rational thinking. |
Anonymous
Literally not the point of the thread. |
Anonymous
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Wasn’t Thailand kicked out of the program many years ago?
Anyway, no. It will not remotely harm the program. There are plenty of young women who want to see America. |
Anonymous
| ICE is only detaining those who commit crimes. Unless your au pair is committing a crime, you have nothing to worry about. |