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Soul_jyot jiThat is exactly why I asked the question. From my understanding of immigration in the US there were agents going by different names who collected fees from immigrants - in the thousands of dollars. But these were not taxes. In those days, the need for unskilled labor was great. Canada and the US were still developing economies with vast expanses of land to farm, lumber to cut, railroads to build, and not enough labor. On the other hand, Asia and Europe had what were literally "starving masses" struggling to free themselves from economic oppression, political oppressions, near slavery. This made it possible for the wicked to make money, and they usually collected from both future employers and immigrants, acting as go-betweens. There was a lot of abuse, and significant extortion.So now the question is: from whom should government of Punjab collect these monies in a legal and rightful sense?
Soul_jyot ji
That is exactly why I asked the question. From my understanding of immigration in the US there were agents going by different names who collected fees from immigrants - in the thousands of dollars. But these were not taxes. In those days, the need for unskilled labor was great. Canada and the US were still developing economies with vast expanses of land to farm, lumber to cut, railroads to build, and not enough labor. On the other hand, Asia and Europe had what were literally "starving masses" struggling to free themselves from economic oppression, political oppressions, near slavery. This made it possible for the wicked to make money, and they usually collected from both future employers and immigrants, acting as go-betweens. There was a lot of abuse, and significant extortion.
So now the question is: from whom should government of Punjab collect these monies in a legal and rightful sense?
