Always Center of Attention, Brightest of All, Main Focus
(With Some New Temp Visa Staff at Mar-a-Lago)
Update on the following story — astonishing but also typical Trump when caught red-handed from here, in part:
This update here from TPM: While Trump was keeping the government shut down for weeks over the need for a border wall to bar potential immigrants, his golf club in Westchester County was quietly firing a dozen undocumented employees, some of whom had been there for years.
According to a Saturday Washington Post report, the firings at the Trump National Golf Club in New York happened one after another starting January 18. Managers told the employees that the company had audited their papers — some which had been submitted years before—and found them to be fake.
Per the Post, accountants at the golf club had looked the other way for years over the phony papers, one former manager describing the policy as “don’t ask, don’t tell” to keep labor costs cheap.
I guess loyal Trumpettes support this, too, um detailed story from TPM here.
This update here from TPM: While Trump was keeping the government shut down for weeks over the need for a border wall to bar potential immigrants, his golf club in Westchester County was quietly firing a dozen undocumented employees, some of whom had been there for years.
According to a Saturday Washington Post report, the firings at the Trump National Golf Club in New York happened one after another starting January 18. Managers told the employees that the company had audited their papers — some which had been submitted years before—and found them to be fake.
Per the Post, accountants at the golf club had looked the other way for years over the phony papers, one former manager describing the policy as “don’t ask, don’t tell” to keep labor costs cheap.
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Original Post Starts Below:I guess loyal Trumpettes support this, too, um detailed story from TPM here.
President Trump may have ratcheted up his anti-immigration efforts in recent months, but his family companies appear to be using foreign workers at a higher rate than ever before.
The Trump Organization requested and received at least 192 visas for foreign workers in 2018, according to Department of Labor data.
That number appears to be the highest for the company going back to at least 2008 and likely much earlier, based on public records.
Those visas were almost entirely for the type of low-skilled foreign workers that Trump has claimed drive down American wages: Cooks, servers, housekeepers, and farm workers with most of them making between $10 and $15 an hour.
In 2018, the various Trump properties received 163 H2B visas for non-agricultural temporary workers and 29 H2A visas for agricultural temporary workers.
The largest number of the Trump Organization’s foreign worker visas in 2018, like in most years, went to his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, FL that Trump calls: “The Winter White House.” ]
Also, where he spends much of his time – it received 78 temporary foreign worker visas last year for waiters, cooks, and maids.
1. International Management Resorts LLC, which runs the Trump International Beach Resort in Miami received 59 worker visas for waiters, maids, and dining room attendants last year.
2. The Trump National Golf Club in NY got 14 visas for cooks and waiters.
3. The Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, FL, received 12 visas for waiters and cooks
4. The Trump Vineyard Estates got 29 visas for agricultural workers.
The 2018 total approved visas (192) is the highest number obtained through various visa programs going back at least a decade. That number is dramatically higher than many other years in the Trump Organization’s history.
Prior to 2018, the Trump Organization received an average of 116 visas per year in the decade prior. Their previous high number of visas appears to be 178 in 2016.
The organization’s properties don’t appear to have received more than 143 visas in any other year going back at least to 2009.
The Trump Organization has applied for at least 1,692 foreign worker visas and received at least 1,650 between 2001 and 2018, according to the data. More than half of those were for Mar-a-Lago.
Charles Kuck, an Atlanta-based immigration attorney who teaches at Emory University, said that the Trump Organization’s heavy reliance on the visa programs flies in the face of the president’s political rhetoric and actions, adding: “If in fact he wanted to ‘buy American, hire American,’ he’d say ‘we’re not going to use the immigration system, we’re going to go out and bring our workers down from West Virginia or from Kentucky or Maine and set them up and give them jobs. Why aren’t they recruiting in West Virginia? It’s hypocrisy.”
On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump has excoriated the nation’s visa program for high-skilled workers as a job killer, pledging to end it with “no exceptions.” But his own companies have used it to bring in hundreds of foreign workers, including fashion models for his modeling agency who need exhibit no special skills.
The little-known corner of the H-1B visa program for models has been controversial for years, questioned not only by Americans facing competition from foreign models but by technology companies whose engineering and scientific visas may instead go to men or women with no more specialized skills than their cheekbones.
Trump, as Republican nominee for president, said the H-1B program allows companies to import foreign workers to replace American workers at lower pay said in March 2016 Trump-Pence press release: “I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.”
My 2 cents: So, what crazy silly-ass game is Trump playing, um Mr. and Mrs. Braindead Loyalists?
As noted above: “President Trump may have ratcheted up his anti-immigration efforts in recent months, but his family companies appear to be using foreign workers at a higher rate than ever before.”
Thus, it is he who is taking jobs from Americans he rails about. What a callous, mean-spirited ugly, nasty, two-faced hypocritical disgusting man.
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