To keep up with the increasing demand for labor, the plantation owners began to import workers in 1865.
There, many companies are setting up factories in other countries rather than importing foreign workers.
Nationwide unemployment rose to 6.7 percent in a country that until recently had to import workers to fill its needs.
It required a lot of labor, and this made plantation owners to import workers.
They managed to tack on restrictions to make it more difficult for companies to import foreign workers.
The solution was to import low-skilled workers from other Communist countries.
When there are not enough jobs to go round, you do not import workers.
Employers willing to pay the fees could import foreign workers faster than they do now.
The plan would also let employers import new workers on the same temporary basis to work at jobs that they cannot fill with Americans.
Critics say they simply want to reduce labor costs by importing foreign workers.