Trump's Mar-a-Lago Granted Visas For 70 Foreign Workers

MSN ^ | 11/4/17 | Mary Papenfuss

[DoodleDawg]

President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort has been granted 70 visas to bring in foreign workers for the winter season, The Palm Beach Post reports.

That’s a 9 percent increase from last year, when Mar-a-Lago hired 64 workers under the H-2B visa program. The new visas will go to 20 foreign cooks, 35 waiters and 15 maids and housekeepers for the 2017-18 tourist season, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. They’ll earn hourly wages from $10.33 (for the cleaners) to $13.34 (for the cooks). The temporary visas allow them to work from October 2017 to the end of May 2018.

A hallmark of Trump’s presidential campaign and a stated push of his administration is that U.S. companies should hire American workers. He has criticized Ford Motor Company, Carrier Corp. and others for moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico. Mar-a-Lago was applying for the foreign worker visas this July when the president launched “Made in America Week.” 

Trump said at the time, “We believe jobs must be offered to American workers first. Does that make sense?”

[rrrod]

Exactly....S Florida has problem getting “decent” seasonal help. Dec thru April. Kids are in college and most wont work. Millennial trash mixed with the regular trash inhabitants of S Florida.

[alloysteel]

All these workers came in with visas, and had been thoroughly vetted before entry. Be sure that before the expiration of their visas, they shall be returned to their home countries.

Together with any children that may have been born of any of them while they were guest workers.

Remember, in addition to ICE, we are dealing with Secret Service here. So there are a couple more layers of vigilance than is normally encountered.

[Moonman62]

If the jobs are offered to Americans first, it’s fake news.

MSN even quotes Trump on that.

[Hot Tabasco]

I wonder how many of them are rehires. At a resort like that, they don't hire "cooks", they hire experienced chefs.....

At a ski resort restaurant in Vail a number of years ago our waiter was an Australian who was basically a seasonal ski bum. When the ski season ends here, he heads back to Australia where he does the same thing during their ski season.........

[Oshkalaboomboom]

If they're coming in on H-2B visas then none of them will be illegal. The President is not breaking the law with this

It's doubtful that DJT had any part in hiring low level staff even before he was POTUS and certainly not after. However for the people that are involved in this type of hiring, Using loopholes to avoid hiring Americans has been going on for many years

[miss marmelstein]

This is what people claim Maine does in the summer season. And yet whenever I’ve visited, all the kids are fresh-faced Americans. And I’ve gone from Portland all the way up the coastline towards Canada.

[miss marmelstein]

If Mar-o-Lago has chefs, and it does, it also has cooks. Line cooks.

[Hot Tabasco]

‘Apply by fax’: Before it can hire foreign workers, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club advertises at home — briefly

[Theoria]

'The ad gave no email address or phone number. “Apply by fax,” it said. The ad also provided a mailing address. It ran twice, then never again.'

Lol..

[techrules2002]

Going out on a limb - - bet not a one of them will drive anything into a crowd or blow anything up - - - annnnnnnnd it’s probably a fireable offense to yell”Allahu Akbar” at anytime

[NorthstarMom]

The executive and head chefs may be local citizens who are paid competitive wages. It would be next to impossible to bring in temporary foreign workers to run a kitchen.

They can’t do it all on their own-they need line cooks.

[central_va]

All these workers came in with visas, and had been thoroughly vetted before entry. Be sure that before the expiration of their visas, they shall be returned to their home countries.

You don't know that. Our Government is corrupt and incompetent and cannot be trusted. If you want employees and can't find any then raise wage don't import foreign scabs.

[central_va]

This is undercutting US wages. All the “H” visas are wage suppression weapons.

[central_va]

The “rich” like cheap help even if they could afford to pay more. It’s the “principle” of the thing. If they can fly in cheap help they’ll do it. Damn the untermensch.

[central_va]

So? If Americans don’t apply, what else do you do? Common sense hiring, to me.

The laws of supply and demand say RAISE THE OFFERING WAGE.

[Sooth2222]

"So why is this good and an H-1B working for Disney bad?"

I did not say that an H-1B visa employee working for Mar-a-Lago was good and an H-1B visa employee working for Disney was bad.

In fact, there must be a shortage of labor in the US, or there wouldn't be as many illegal immigrants as there are in the US. I would like to know something about people who are coming here. Since these are legal workers, and since Mar-a-Lago is concerned with their guests' happiness and safety, these workers have been vetted, and are a minimal cost to taxpayers and so I'm much less concerned about this than I am about illegal immigration.

I couldn't find the total number of employees, but Mar-a-Lago has 500 members so my guess is that the total number of employees at peak is at least that number. 70 H-1B seasonal employees wouldn't seem excessive.

[central_va]

In fact, there must be a shortage of labor in the US, or there wouldn't be as many illegal immigrants as there are in the US.

Boy what poppy cock. There is illegal immigration because the corrupt US government lets them in to undercut US wages. There is little or no penalty for getting caught with your hand in the illegal cookie jar. There are 100,000,000 unemployed/underemployed US citizens in the US right now. We need to hire them.

[deport]

Hasn’t Trump been doing this for years? Nothing new if I recall correctly.

[Dana1960]

Because the H1B visas are replacing year round, full time employees, often entire departments. The Mar-a-Lago jobs discussed here are temp jobs.

It’s a huge difference.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/03/01/disney-workers-forced-to-train-their-foreign-replacements.html

That said, a smart US citizen would take one those jobs, and become such a good employee, that they would be crazy not to find a full time position for them at the end of the term.

[deport]

DHS Provides Relief to American Businesses in Danger of Suffering Irreparable Harm

  
Release Date:
July 17, 2017

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010

 

Additional Visas for Temporary Workers Provided Until End of Current Fiscal Year WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses in danger of suffering irreparable harm due to a lack of available temporary nonagricultural workers will be able to hire up to 15,000 additional temporary nonagricultural workers under the H-2B program under a final rule that the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor submitted to the Federal Register today. To qualify for the additional visas, petitioners must attest, under penalty of perjury, that their business is likely to suffer irreparable harm if it cannot employ H-2B nonimmigrant workers during fiscal year (FY) 2017.

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The H-2B Temporary Nonagricultural Worker program was designed to serve U.S. businesses unable to find a sufficient number of qualified U.S. workers to perform nonagricultural work of a temporary nature. Congress set the annual H-2B cap at 66,000. A maximum of 33,000 H-2B visas are available during the first half of the fiscal year, and the remainder, including any unused H-2B visas, is available starting April 1 through September 30. On March 13, 2017, USCIS received sufficient H-2B petitions to meet the full FY 2017 statutory cap of 66,000. In May, Congress delegated its authority to the Secretary to increase the number of temporary nonagricultural work visas available to U.S. employers through September 30. The Secretary took the intervening time to consult with the Secretary of Labor on the issue and to properly develop this rule in accordance with Congressional requirements.

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