Namely only the global elite.
This will hopefully be a thought provoking question here, as I'm not a US Citizen, but dual Dutch and British with hence a different world view and also a very strong supporter of the EU.
NAFTA never wanted to go down the same road as the EU, where a German can legally live, work and take any job in France, and an Italian can legally live, work and take any job in Belgium.Why?
Similarly, apart from Camp America for three months and unlike the two year working holiday visa in Australia, the US also also never adopted a similar scheme for Europeans to come over, take a secession of bar or Starbucks Coffee jobs and generally backpack and travel round on the Amtrak and Greyhound over two years to see all 50 states. Why? I see no harm in such a cultural experience, and for most Europeans its only 90 days at a time on the visa waiver.
Finally, what happens if Nisha, a Receptionist in the UK with Ford, would like to experience the same role working at global HQ in Detroit? She can't and is locked out from having that experience, when the company could just do an international job share swap and send someone over from the US instead, who also wants to see the UK to fill her role so 'no local is done out of a job' so to speak.
We're meant to be living in a highly globalised & fully integrated world economy, so why the continuing restrictions, tightness & lack of flexibility over the free flow movement of labour between US & Europe, both 1st world?
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