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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Worthwhile reading— https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/au-pair-program-abuse-state-department-214956[/quote]

Ok. Posting this hit-job article from 2017 is just piling on. The program is dead. Lots of folks who post here wanted to kill the program. For years. Nannies. Bitter former au pairs. Trolls.

Now the piling on begins. This program was not what the article describes. People with paying salary jobs in the U.S. have bad, illegal things happen, too. This one sided article from three years ago is being posted now to pile on to anyone who used the program to lump them in with all the bad actors that current social change is appropriately addressing (confederate flags, police brutality, systemic racism).

The program did not end because of social change for the better. It was ended by a narcissistic idiot who is pandering to a racist, xenophobic base, and probably influenced (paid off) by the companies who profit from seeing the program end. Ending a visa based program to “protect US jobs” is not a move for social justice. That’s not positive social change. It’s bad policy. It screws working families who welcomed cultural exchange. It cuts off access to cultural exchange for 10s of thousands of young people to learn about and experience America.

So pile on. Shill for a nanny placement firm. Good for you. But this was not about kindness or social justice. Just money. For a big company. Good for you. [/quote]

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