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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] The $15,000 Tourist Tag: Trumpโ€™s New Bond on Visas

A pilot programme introduces high visa bonds for โ€˜overstay riskโ€™ nationsโ€”more politics than policy?

1๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์งœ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ: ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋น„์ž ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ์ •์ฑ…
โ€˜์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ตญโ€™ ๋Œ€์ƒ ๊ณ ์•ก ๋น„์ž ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ์‹œ๋ฒ” ๋„์ž…โ€”์ •์ฑ…์ธ๊ฐ€, ์ •์น˜์ธ๊ฐ€

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋งํฌ : https://forms.gle/6a6ou68a2YyLvnaMA

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๋ฌธ์˜ : https://open.kakao.com/me/insightsalon

๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Starting August 20, some visitors to the U.S. will need to pay a hefty bondโ€”up to $15,000โ€”just to apply for a visa. The year-long pilot programme is targeted at tourists and business travelers from countries with high rates of visa overstays.
8์›” 20์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์€ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 1๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๊ฑธ์–ด์•ผ ๋น„์ž ์‹ ์ฒญ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ดˆ๊ณผ์œจ์ด ๋†’์€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ฒจ๋ƒฅํ•œ 1๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ์‹œ๋ฒ” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Critics say the move revives the logic behind Trumpโ€™s original โ€œMuslim banโ€ and frames immigration policy as national security theatre. Supporters argue it will pressure foreign governments to improve compliance.
๋น„ํŒ๋ก ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด ์ •์ฑ…์ด ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ 1๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ โ€˜๋ฌด์Šฌ๋ฆผ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ นโ€™์„ ๋˜์‚ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฏผ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์•ˆ๋ณด ์‡ผ๋กœ ์ „๋ฝ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ์ง€์ง€์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ž๊ตญ๋ฏผ์˜ ๋น„์ž ๋‚จ์šฉ์„ ๋ง‰๋„๋ก ์••๋ฐ•ํ•˜๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Visa Bond (๋น„์ž ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ)
    A refundable deposit required from certain visa applicants to ensure they leave the country on time.
    โ†’ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ๋งŒ๋ฃŒ ํ›„ ์ถœ๊ตญ์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์š”๊ตฌ๋˜๋Š” ํ™˜๊ธ‰ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ.

  • Overstay Rate (์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ดˆ๊ณผ์œจ)
    The percentage of travelers who remain in the U.S. after their visa expires.
    โ†’ ๋น„์ž ๋งŒ๋ฃŒ ํ›„์—๋„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅด๋Š” ๋น„์œจ.

  • Citizenship-by-Investment (ํˆฌ์ž ์‹œ๋ฏผ๊ถŒ)
    A legal process where foreign nationals obtain citizenship in exchange for financial investments.
    โ†’ ์ผ์ • ๊ธˆ์•ก์„ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋ฉด ์‹œ๋ฏผ๊ถŒ์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ œ๋„. ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์š”๊ฑด๋„ ์—†์Œ.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

This isnโ€™t the first time the visa bond idea has surfaced. A similar plan in 2020 failed to launch due to the pandemic. Now, revived under the banner of โ€œProtecting the American People Against Invasion,โ€ the move is more symbolic than systemic.
๋น„์ž ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2020๋…„์—๋„ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰๋˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ์—” โ€˜๊ตญ๋ฏผ ์นจ์ž… ๋ณดํ˜ธโ€™๋ผ๋Š” ํ–‰์ •๋ช…๋ น ์•„๋ž˜ ๋ถ€ํ™œํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ œ๋„๋ผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ƒ์ง•์„ฑ์— ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ถ„์„์ด ๋‚˜์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The State Department says this bond system is a โ€œtool of diplomacy,โ€ meant to nudge foreign governments into lowering overstay rates. But many critics see it as a selective burden that could worsen already strained international relationships.
๊ตญ๋ฌด๋ถ€๋Š” ์ด ์ •์ฑ…์„ โ€˜์™ธ๊ต ๋„๊ตฌโ€™๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ํ‰๋ก ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ํŠน์ • ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—๋งŒ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์”Œ์šฐ๋Š” ์ •์น˜์  ์กฐ์น˜๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ visa collateral(๋น„์ž ๋‹ด๋ณด)
โ€œThis isnโ€™t immigration reformโ€”itโ€™s visa collateral politics.โ€
"์ด๊ฑด ์ด๋ฏผ ๊ฐœํ˜์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ โ€˜๋น„์ž ๋‹ด๋ณด ์ •์น˜โ€™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ tourist tax in disguise(๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„ ์“ด ์—ฌํ–‰์„ธ)
โ€œA $15,000 bond feels like a tourist tax in disguise.โ€
"1๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์€ โ€˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„ ์“ด ์—ฌํ–‰์„ธโ€™์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ selective diplomacy(์„ ํƒ์  ์™ธ๊ต ์••๋ฐ•)
โ€œVisa bonds are a form of selective diplomacy aimed at โ€˜problemโ€™ countries.โ€
"๋น„์ž ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์€ โ€˜๋ฌธ์ œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€โ€™๋ฅผ ๊ฒจ๋ƒฅํ•œ โ€˜์„ ํƒ์  ์™ธ๊ต ์••๋ฐ•โ€™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
Immigration and human rights organizations have condemned the bond system, calling it discriminatory and ineffective. Meanwhile, conservative outlets frame it as long-overdue accountability. Business groups worry it will deter legitimate tourism and trade.
์ธ๊ถŒ๋‹จ์ฒด์™€ ์ด๋ฏผ์ž ๊ถŒ์ต๋‹จ์ฒด๋Š” ์ด ์ •์ฑ…์ด ์ฐจ๋ณ„์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹คํšจ์„ฑ๋„ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋น„ํŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์–ธ๋ก ์€ โ€œ๋Šฆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ฑ…์ž„ ๋ถ€๊ณผโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์˜นํ˜ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ณผ ๋ฌด์—ญ์„ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์€ โ€˜ํ•ฉ๋ฒ•์  ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๋งˆ์ € ์œ„์ถ•๋  ๊ฒƒโ€™์ด๋ผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

Border control or border message?
When immigration becomes theatre, policy becomes performance.

์ด๊ฑด ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ ํ†ต์ œ์ธ๊ฐ€, ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€์ธ๊ฐ€?
์ด๋ฏผ์ด ์ •์น˜ ์—ฐ๊ทน์ด ๋  ๋•Œ, ์ •์ฑ…์€ ์—ฐ์ถœ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… January 2025 โ€“ Trump signs executive order โ€œProtecting the American People Against Invasionโ€
๐Ÿ“… 2025๋…„ 1์›” โ€“ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„, โ€˜๊ตญ๋ฏผ ์นจ์ž… ๋ณดํ˜ธโ€™ ํ–‰์ •๋ช…๋ น ์„œ๋ช…
์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ์ œ๋„๋Š”, ์ด ํ–‰์ •๋ช…๋ น์ด ํ˜„์‹คํ™”๋œ ์ฒซ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "Visa Bond Pilot Background", U.S. Department of State, 2025

  • "US to propose some visa applicants post bond of up to $15,000", Financial Times, 2025

  • "Overstay Rates Report", DHS, 2024

  • "Citizenship by Investment: Risks and Realities", Migration Policy Institute, 2023

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