Posted on 08/01/2015 10:44:11 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Companies owned by Donald Trump have reportedly tried to import at least 1,100 foreign workers since 2000.
A Reuters review [link at URL] of Labor Department data found that Trump Enterprises have requested temporary work visas for over a thousand foreign workers. ...
The desired workers include waitresses, cooks, vineyard workers, as well as positions as assistant golf-course superintendent, assistant hotel manager and banquet manager. ...
Reuters found that most of the visa requests were granted, as Trump has vowed to create and protect jobs for American workers. ...
The Labor Department data did not specify the nationality of the immigrants sought by Trump companies, but the visas requested are overwhelmingly used to bring in Mexican workers. ...
"I will bring back our jobs from China, Mexico and other places." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Ted Cruz is trying to get 325,000 more H-1B foreign workers in.
Check this out.
You do realize the headline you posted is misleading. It’s click bait that doesn’t even correspond with the actual interview mentioned in the article.
Newsflash: Bernie Sanders, who constantly rails against banks, has a MORTGAGE !
May 14, 2013
press@cruz.senate.gov / (202) 228-7561
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today presented an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would improve our nation’s legal immigration system by increasing high-skilled temporary worker visas, called H-1B visas, by 500 percent. The measure would effectively address the needs of our nation’s high-skilled workforce by helping meet the growing demand for workers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. It will also make block grants available to states to promote STEM education efforts and increase domestic STEM professionals. The committee voted against the amendment 4 to 14 with every Democrat voting against it on a party-line vote.
“I strongly support legal immigration. Legal immigration is a fundamental pillar of our nation's heritage, and I was pleased today to offer legislation that would have improved and expanded legal immigration by dramatically increasing the cap for high-tech temporary worker visas. This amendment would not only improve the current system, but would also encourage economic growth and create new jobs in America. There is currently a serious shortage of workers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, yet every year we send thousands of high-tech graduate students back to their home countries to start businesses and create jobs. This makes no sense. I’m disappointed in the committee’s vote to reject expanding high-tech immigration. Although the Gang of Eight's bill makes a modest step towards improving high-tech immigration, it does not go nearly far enough. There is no reason to arbitrarily cap high-tech visas at 110,000 when these jobs are going unfilled. We need economic growth here and now.”
Sen. Cruz’s amendment would:
Immediately increase the H-1B cap by 500 percent from 65,000 to 325,000 [foreign workers].
Here’s a link to the actual (not very recent) article that you posted the headline of....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCwc57x3-9U
It wasn’t my headline. It’s the Hill’s headline.
Secondly, data from the Labor Department was interviewed? If so, how?
How does one interview data on the subject? LOL.
The data probably didn’t do much talking, either. ROTFL.
Legally? So what’s the problem?
Red Herring.
BTW, I have seen many Freepers here who like it when people take on the big banks.
Sounds like Trump wanted his workers to be DOCUMENTED.
Yet another plus for him...
Tu Quo Que argument from you.
Or, in lay speak, “He did it too!”
Less than 90 Workers a year? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Just how much is there left to scrape off the bottom of the Barrel? Were any of those Workers Breast Pumping?
I wouldn’t vote for Sanders either. He a Trump are both liberal hypocrites.
He’s being competitive in business. I don’t like the system, but I don’t fault Trump for using it.
Just a stupid wannabe drive by story from the media.
Oh, also, I like that he was looking to do it legally.
“NEWSFLASH: Ted Cruz, who SHUTDOWN THE GOVERNMENT over Obamacare, was recently seen leaving a doctor’s office.”
That’s it...I’m not voting for Cruz - he is a TOTAL HYPOCRITE.
Question: were there no American citizens who could fill those jobs as cooks, golf course superintendent, assistant hotel manager, etc, if indeed foreign workers were sought out for these positions?
Commercial kitchen, grape farming, hotel and golf course maintenance labor is dominated by semiskilled and unskilled Latinos. It makes sense to recruit Latino nationals for mid level management because they are fluent in the native language and culture of the laborers.
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