The Mr. Belvedere Migrant Crisis: A Boston Woman's Haitian 'Indentured Servants'

• 1:01:08The migrant crisis blueprint works because Mr. Belvedere showed us that wealthy people can live good lives with live-in help.
• 1:01:44Lisa Hillen Brand welcomes migrants into her Brooklyn apartment and stops doing household work entirely.
• 1:02:03Tim notes the real purpose of the migrant crisis is to make white women do less than they already do.
• 1:02:18Wand, the migrant, loves cooking and wants to open his own restaurant.
• 1:02:31The migrants have work permits and take English classes while performing all domestic labor for their host.
• 1:02:50Tim expresses happiness for Lisa and her new indentured servants helping her avoid the couch.
• 1:03:35The arrangement described: foreigners live on your property, do everything you want, and fear you because they could be deported.
• 1:04:17Tim notices the historical parallel—Haitian migrants working for a white Boston woman under threat of deportation—but can't quite name it.
• 1:04:42Tim pretends he can't remember the term for this arrangement, letting the implication hang.

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