I think, it is tourist with little or no money coming and staying until DHS deports them. The social welfare system is much better on Guam than it is in Russia and China. It isn’t cold on Guam and that alone makes it a lot easier to live on the street until DHS deports you. These “tourist” think $2/hr is a great wage. Can GovGuam deal with the increased sex slave trade? The visa program is designed to assure that the tourists coming are actually tourist and that they have resources and need to return to their homeland. Guam wants the affluent tourists and it is not a problem for these tourists to get a visa.
That is not to say DOD isn’t paranoid, but the military has a big fence around their compounds. I doubt it is the DOD holding up the “parole authority” unless it is on the bottom of an inbox with no priority
Back before there was a terrorist problem, Hawaii had this same visa problem with Koreans. To get a visa Koreans had to have money in the bank, a job, property in Korea and not be female between 12-40 years old. In 1985, U.S. soldiers could get $10,000 cash for marrying a Korean girl and taking her to Hawaii and leaving her there.
In the ’70s and ’80’s the Club girls at the U.S. military bases were Koreans. In 2011, they are pretty much all Chinese and Russian. I don’t know why this happened, but it might be that Korean hookers can now go the U.S. for 90 days without a visa, and there is no one to send them back when the 90 days is up.
There are a lot more poor Chinese and Russian people than affluent people. Guam has a social welfare system that China and Russia don’t have. I might be wrong but the affluent tourist will prefer Saipan to Guam as it has gambling and less restrictions. This is not to say I haven’t been wrong in the past, I said:
GovGuam can’t get out debt by cutting expenses and not raising the GRT and property taxes.
Futenma will never be built.
H2B workers can’t legally work on buildup projects.
The last full-blooded Chamorro died in 1838, and the Chamorro language has been a dead language since the Spanish invaded.
Guam is no longer vital or strategic to the defense of the U.S. mainland. Guam is a gas station to the U.S. military.
The buildup is DEAD!
JUST BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!!
CHARLES ADAMS
Northvale, NJ
