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Donald Trump's companies sought visas to import at least 1,100 workers
Business Insider ^ | 1/13/16 | Mica Rosenberg and Ryan McNeill

Posted on 01/13/2016 2:12:00 PM PST by gwgn02

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: america; cheaplaborexpress; h1b; jobs; jobsforamericans; trump
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To: gwgn02

Legal and temporary

Many hotels do this

The Grand Hotel in Point Clear Alabama a Marriott property does this

Hyatt Regencies do too

My best friend met his drop dead hot solid 9.95 wifey this way in Key West

It’s no different than fruit pickers used to be just higher end

They usually come in on one year work visa

Some apply for green cards some don’t


81 posted on 01/13/2016 3:57:16 PM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: gwgn02

Trump didn’t do that. Eric Holder & Alberto Gonzalez(probably a buddy of Ted Cruz like Bush Jr at one point) put a gun to the head of HR managers.


82 posted on 01/13/2016 3:58:17 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (Savage BLASTS Megyn Kelly, Fox News Over Treatment Of Trump)
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To: SMM48

Can’t help it; it’s too funny, lol.


83 posted on 01/13/2016 4:06:21 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ("Ted Cruz is the type of guy to swim across a moat with a knife in his teeth. He knows how to fight")
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To: windsorknot

You’re a charitable person. :)


84 posted on 01/13/2016 4:08:15 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ("Ted Cruz is the type of guy to swim across a moat with a knife in his teeth. He knows how to fight")
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To: CatherineofAragon

Perhaps she meant caricature.


85 posted on 01/13/2016 4:20:49 PM PST by FourPeas (Chocolate, sugar and lots of caffeine. Hard to beat that.)
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To: House Atreides

Don’t give a rip. He followed the law. If more people followed the law we wouldn’t be in the position we’re in.


86 posted on 01/13/2016 4:28:19 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: dem bums
No, the point is he is a businessman and he uses the existing laws to expand his profit margin. That is what businessmen do. He isn't in the charity business.

If the American people are content with sending idiots to Congress, why jump are you jumping on a man for following the law?

87 posted on 01/13/2016 4:31:28 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: gwgn02

Legally and It is for temporary employees. The airlines have a lot of work visa employees........and most join the union as soon as they can.


88 posted on 01/13/2016 6:04:33 PM PST by tillacum
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To: stars & stripes forever

What kind of company is Cruz asking visas for? Trump is actually going to use these people. A lot of them are trained waiters, waitresses and bar tenders. Our people do not have the TRAINING the foreigners have in waiting tables, except in a few instances.


89 posted on 01/13/2016 6:07:46 PM PST by tillacum
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To: gwgn02

If he can get the right people here. I have my doubts.


90 posted on 01/13/2016 6:14:45 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
Keyword: TEMPORARY!!!

H-1Bs are supposed to be temporary too.

91 posted on 01/13/2016 6:16:58 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: hoosiermama

I think you’re thinking of St. Paul’s Cathedral and not a Trump building.


92 posted on 01/13/2016 6:20:10 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Solson

Yes I would. In fact, I have a team in China. Business is business. The ‘right thing’? oh please. Next you’ll tell me how a living wage is the right thing to do.
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So your man Trump is going to “bring those jobs back from China and overseas”. Are those just pandering words or should he do it? Should he force you to “bring the jobs home”? What precisely (beyond his VAGUE GENERALITIES AND SLOGANEERING) are the details of Trumps plan to “bring the jobs back”?

Enquiring minds want to know.


93 posted on 01/13/2016 7:41:27 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruzin' [BUT NO LONGER Trumping'] or losin'!)
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To: central_va

My answer to both questions is NO, IT IS NOT RIGHT. And TRUMP IS A HYPOCRITE saying others traveling the Cheap Labor Express is BAD (and something he will fix) but he just goes about his business on the CHEAP LABOR EXPRESS and that is OK.
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First of all Trump does not directly manage his many properties. A manger made this decision knowing his boss was running on a platform of America first in hiring . So something is not right here but you do deserve and answer I think one is coming.
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Ahh...so “the buck” stops somewhere below Trump and he is not responsible for any hypocritical practices HIS businesses employ. It seems like the Limbaugh Theorem (invented by Rush Limbaugh to explain Obama’s approach to everything) applies to Trump just as it applies to Obama.

The Limbaugh Theorem: Obama (and now Trump) has mastered the ability to always be seen as “opposing everything that’s happening, even the things he is causing to happen. He is on a perpetual campaign.”


94 posted on 01/13/2016 7:47:47 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruzin' [BUT NO LONGER Trumping'] or losin'!)
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To: gwgn02

btt


95 posted on 01/13/2016 9:43:15 PM PST by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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