Donald Trump Empire Sought Visas For At Least 1,100 Foreign Workers

[dust1n]

Donald Trump is staking his run for U.S. president in part on a vow to protect American jobs. But this month, one of his companies, the elite Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Florida, applied to import 70 foreign workers to serve as cooks, wait staff and cleaners.

A Reuters analysis of U.S. government data reveals that this is business as usual in the New York property magnate's empire.

Trump owns companies that have sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas since 2000, according to U.S. Department of Labor data reviewed by Reuters. Most of the applications were approved, the data show.

Nine companies majority-owned by Trump have sought to bring in foreign waitresses, cooks, vineyard workers and other laborers on temporary work-visa programs administered by the Labor Department.

The candidate's foreign talent hunt included applications for an assistant golf-course superintendent, an assistant hotel manager and a banquet manager.

Two of his companies, Trump Model Management and Trump Management Group LLC, have sought visas for nearly 250 foreign fashion models, the records show.

Trump’s presidential campaign and a lawyer for the businessman declined to comment. The Mar-a-Lago Club could not be reached for comment.

The analysis of Trump's history of actively importing foreign workers comes as he has emerged as an early front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination in the November 2016 presidential election. Trump has positioned himself as a champion of American workers whose livelihoods are threatened by illegal foreign laborers and the offshoring of U.S. jobs.

“I will be the greatest jobs president that God every created," he said in announcing his candidacy on June 16. "I will bring back our jobs from China, Mexico and other places. I will bring back jobs and our money."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...100-foreign-workers_55bc2c8ee4b06363d5a2615f?

Turns out Santa isn't real.

 

[Mycroft]

Donald trump is like that guy in the pub who everyone keeps buying him drinks just to see what he'll say next.

 

[Lyndon]

What better way to propel America into a complete oligarchy but to elect a true oligarch president????

 

[Paranoid Android]

WTF ..We love rich people. Why not ? Money is God and the only thing most Americans care about.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The workers are legal and he's referring to Nafta by which we lost a lot of jobs and turned for the most part into a service sector economy. Trump didn't two face his campaign bid by bringing in some legal help for a few businesses he happens to have an interest in.

Incidently the Mar-a-Lago Club is a private luxury establishment not open to the general public.

Claudia Mason and Carmen Dell'Orefice, two top models forTrump Model Management are American born.

Trump Management Group LLC has only 80
employees. Hardly something that would create a major ripple in the many businesses run by him.

Of course liberals like to make a huge stink about matters like this, and blowing things way out of proportion more than things really are. Makes good press. No?

 

[dust1n]

Of course liberals like to make a huge stink about matters like this, and blowing things way out of proportion more than things really are. Makes good press. No?

Who blew it out of proportion?

 

[Paranoid Android]

The obvious devils-the LIBERALS !! Didn't you notice an odiferous scent ? All liberals are beggars, homeless and don't work. Conservatives=Hard Working Americans Liberals=Cheating Communist Beggars

 

[Twilight Hue]

Who blew it out of proportion?

The author and contents of the article.

It sharply contrasts hiring of legal foreign workers against Trumps platform over issues involving the bringing in of illegal foreign workers and offshoring as some kind of political catchpoint to suggest he's being two faced and hypocritical, just over the fact there are foreign workers in his employ.

The article strikes me as being dishonest and slanted. It's just slings political mud as far as I'm concerned.

 

[dust1n]

It sharply contrasts hiring of legal foreign workers against Trumps platform over issues involving the bringing in of illegal foreign workers and offshoring as some kind of political catchpoint to suggest he's being two faced and hypocritical, just over the fact there are foreign workers in his employ.

The article strikes me as being dishonest and slanted. It's just slings political mud as far as I'm concerned.

Um... I'm confused. If Trump says things like "I’m opposed to new people coming in" and then actively assists immigrants to come into the country legally to work at his businesses... how is that not hypocritical?

 

[Marisa]

I'm not really willing to entertain any politician's "thoughts" on immigration until we have a conversation about heavily dependent the food we put on our table is on cheap illegal labor, and address the fact of how much it would cost if 'Murican's were in the fields picking crops. Until that happens, all the politicians kinda sound the same to me. Some are wackier than others with their "build a wall and make Mexico pay for it", but I sorta feel like Charlie Brown listening to the adults talk.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Um... I'm confused. If Trump says things like "I’m opposed to new people coming in" and then actively assists immigrants to come into the country legally to work at his businesses... how is that not hypocritical?

I'm under the impression that Trump's platform is against illegal immigration, not legalized foreign workers hired through the proper channels.

If Trump hires illegals under the table, then there would be legitimacy in calling Trump a hypocritical person.

Far as I know of it, Trump specified illegal workers. Even the op makes mention of it.

Snippet quote from the OP (bottom of 8th paragraph.)......

Trump has positioned himself as a champion of American workers whose livelihoods are threatened by illegal foreign laborers and the offshoring of U.S. jobs.

 

[dust1n]

I'm under the impression that Trump's platform is against illegal immigration, not legalized foreign workers hired through the proper channels.

If Trump hires illegals under the table, then there would be legitimacy in calling Trump a hypocritical person.

Far as I know of it, Trump specified illegal workers. Even the op makes mention of it.

Snippet quote from the OP (bottom of 8th paragraph.)......

I guess I'm confused in what way illegal immigration hurts the livelihood of American workers, but legal immigration doesn't.

 

[dust1n]

Here we go:

But a Trump company may be relying on some undocumented workers to finish the $200 million hotel, which will sit five blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, according to several who work there. A Trump spokeswoman said the company and its contractors follow all applicable laws. But in light of Trump’s comments, some of the workers at the site said they are now worried about their jobs — while others simply expressed disgust over the opinions of the man ultimately responsible for the creation of those jobs...

All of them said they have been talking about Trump ever since his inflammatory remarks dominated coverage of his presidential announcement on June 16.

“It’s something ironic,” said Ivan Arellano, 29, who is from Mexico and obtained legal status through marriage. He now works as a mason laying the stonework for the lobby floor and walls of what will become the Trump International Hotel.

“The majority of us are Hispanics, many who came illegally,” Arellano said in Spanish. “And we’re all here working very hard to build a better life for our families.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...785116-20ec-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html

 

[Wirey]

Here we go:

But a Trump company may be relying on some undocumented workers to finish the $200 million hotel, which will sit five blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, according to several who work there. A Trump spokeswoman said the company and its contractors follow all applicable laws. But in light of Trump’s comments, some of the workers at the site said they are now worried about their jobs — while others simply expressed disgust over the opinions of the man ultimately responsible for the creation of those jobs...

All of them said they have been talking about Trump ever since his inflammatory remarks dominated coverage of his presidential announcement on June 16.

“It’s something ironic,” said Ivan Arellano, 29, who is from Mexico and obtained legal status through marriage. He now works as a mason laying the stonework for the lobby floor and walls of what will become the Trump International Hotel.

“The majority of us are Hispanics, many who came illegally,” Arellano said in Spanish. “And we’re all here working very hard to build a better life for our families.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...785116-20ec-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html

Stop confusing things with factual information!

 

[dust1n]

Stop confusing things with factual information!

But... I am.... a .... LOSER.



Questions scrutinizing the hiring of undocumented immigrants at his luxury residential buildings are “pretty pathetic to be honest,” Donald Trump said Wednesday in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Trump also said he “can’t guarantee” that he doesn’t have undocumented immigrants working at his hotel projects since, as he claimed, there are anywhere between 11 and 34 million undocumented immigrants in the country.

Responding to a recent Washington Post article finding that some workers at the new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. are undocumented, Trump demanded names so that he could fire the workers.

The interview took place at Trump Tower in New York City, where 200 undocumented Polish immigrants reportedly helped demolish and construct his building decades ago.

Cooper asked if it was “hypocritical” that Trump has painted Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers given that he was involved in a 35-year-old lawsuit by those Polish immigrants, who alleged wage theft. “Anderson, when you have to go back 35 years to tell me about something, I think that’s pretty pathetic, to be honest with you,” Trump replied.

When Cooper pressed him on the immigration status of his employees, the real estate mogul said he couldn’t be sure.

“I can’t guarantee it. How can anyone? You have anywhere from 11 to 34 million illegal immigrants. I used to hear 11, now I hear 34 million!” Trump said. “I can’t guarantee anything. But I can say this, We work very hard to make sure that everybody is legal as opposed to illegal.”

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2015/07/09/3678473/donald-trump-pretty-pathetic/

 

[Twilight Hue]

Here we go:

But a Trump company may be relying on some undocumented workers to finish the $200 million hotel, which will sit five blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, according to several who work there. A Trump spokeswoman said the company and its contractors follow all applicable laws. But in light of Trump’s comments, some of the workers at the site said they are now worried about their jobs — while others simply expressed disgust over the opinions of the man ultimately responsible for the creation of those jobs...

All of them said they have been talking about Trump ever since his inflammatory remarks dominated coverage of his presidential announcement on June 16.

“It’s something ironic,” said Ivan Arellano, 29, who is from Mexico and obtained legal status through marriage. He now works as a mason laying the stonework for the lobby floor and walls of what will become the Trump International Hotel.

“The majority of us are Hispanics, many who came illegally,” Arellano said in Spanish. “And we’re all here working very hard to build a better life for our families.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...785116-20ec-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html

If that may be, and some, gets confirmed then I'd agree there are at least issues that Trump needs to address.

Was this at Trump's direction? or his managerial staff? Trump makes a valid point considering his vast holdings and expanse that one man cannot possibly be everywhere every time to make sure yet still he is the man in charge and should take responsibility once he is informed.

 

[Underhill]

Um... I'm confused. If Trump says things like "I’m opposed to new people coming in" and then actively assists immigrants to come into the country legally to work at his businesses... how is that not hypocritical?

I think you misunderstand the issue. Trump is against the mythical foreign worker sneaking over the border to steal our jobs. A status that barely exist any more but has achieved legendary status among conservatives. He is all for bringing in cheap legal labor to steal our jobs. Two entirely different things. One is dictated by desperate people looking for work, the other dictated by corporate need for profits.

 

[dust1n]

If that may be, and some, gets confirmed then I'd agree there are at least issues that Trump needs to address.

I wasn't even thinking about the illegal immigrant thing, but I was, wait I'll just search that too. So apparently some publications are going to be looking out for this.

Was this at Trump's direction? or his managerial staff? Trump makes a valid point considering his vast holdings and expanse that one man cannot possibly be everywhere every time to make sure yet still he is the man in charge and should take responsibility once he is informed.

Ah, but it's much easier to demand responsibility from people this it is to accept our own and all.