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Exclusive: Donald Trump's companies have sought visas to import at least 1,100 workers
Reuters ^ | 8/2/2015 | Reuters

Posted on 08/03/2015 3:12:55 AM PDT by Dallas59

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; jobs; trump
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To: Dallas59

1100 over 14+ years, 250 of which were foreign fashion models. Woooooooooo, He’s the boogey man of cheap foreign labor. I wonder how many Americans work at foreign Trump properties?


21 posted on 08/03/2015 5:25:40 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: 9YearLurker

Yep. His spox had no comment bc they want it asked in the debate. DT will absolutely crush that outta the park.

I can’t wait. Still excited but wary...hoping for Cruz to affect our country long term...but DT has already done some good chit.

There is _already_ more fight in real conservative pols.


22 posted on 08/03/2015 5:29:55 AM PDT by Principled (...the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others...)
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To: Dallas59

with half the workforce out of work, why import legal or not?


23 posted on 08/03/2015 5:30:02 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Dallas59

250 models wanting to get visas, the outrage. Wonder how deep they are digging on the Clinton Foundation?

Pray America is waking


24 posted on 08/03/2015 5:34:17 AM PDT by bray (Cruz to the White House)
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To: jimbo123

The Donald *does* like those eastern European women.
Ivana was Czech born and Trump’s type of green goes a very long way in East Europe.


25 posted on 08/03/2015 5:48:33 AM PDT by oldvirginian (TED CRUZ, because the Constitution matters.)
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To: markomalley

Compared to the total number of people employed by his many companies, 1‚100 isn’t even a drop in a tea cup, much less a drop in a bucket.


26 posted on 08/03/2015 5:52:12 AM PDT by oldvirginian (TED CRUZ, because the Constitution matters.)
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To: jimbo123

Visit Trump Hotel Chicago and you will see some of them. YOWZA!


27 posted on 08/03/2015 6:12:02 AM PDT by skippyjonjones
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To: Dallas59

So what? Microsoft applies for 95,000 of them a year, knowing they’ll only get 5,000 or so.


28 posted on 08/03/2015 6:28:01 AM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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To: Dallas59
REMINDER: Ted Cruz wants to increase the H1-B visa cap by 500 percent.
29 posted on 08/03/2015 6:29:30 AM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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To: Dallas59
"If they are legal...does it matter"

No, but immigration is a big issue, and many would like to know if Trump would support raising the quota.

It is not mentioned, but these workers are probably H2B Non-Ag workers, which has a yearly quota of 66,000.

Does Trump support raising the quota, perhaps to 96,000 per year?

Another question you might ask of Trump is does he support a new guest worker program that would allow these temp workers to stay for a longer period of time, perhaps 3 years.

30 posted on 08/03/2015 6:38:42 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: skippyjonjones

I am definitely in favor of raising the visa cap for Trump’s Eastern European models, waitresses and maids!


31 posted on 08/03/2015 6:40:50 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: central_va

Every time I travel and overnight in a hotel/motel, the cleaning personnel are Mexican, some cannot speak English. Americans, in most circles find it beneath themselves to do such work. When I was flying, an awful lot of our flight attendants were working on the green card. Something has happened to the American work ethic. There are a lot of jobs begging to be filled, yet those “without” work find it far to easy and lucrative to apply for welfare or disability social security. A shame. Since LBJ’s Great Society, America has lost a lot of workers to welfare and social security disability.


32 posted on 08/03/2015 6:57:29 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: tillacum
Americans, in most circles find it beneath themselves to do such work at the wages being offered

Fixed.

33 posted on 08/03/2015 6:59:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: tillacum

There is no job that cannot be filled. It is a simple matter of finding the correct price point.


34 posted on 08/03/2015 7:00:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: erlayman

It’d difficult to find a nice men’s dress or sports shirt that is made in the US unless you want to pay about $100.00 for it. And anyone who bemoans the loss of textile jobs in the US never worked in one.


35 posted on 08/03/2015 7:05:49 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: central_va

What wages are fair? With the increase of wages at the incoming level, the prices of bread, eggs, and other every day commodities go up and the lower income wage earners are in the same fix as they were before the wage increase. This is my observation over the years.


36 posted on 08/03/2015 7:09:35 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: tillacum
What wages are fair? With the increase of wages at the incoming level, the prices of bread, eggs, and other every day commodities go up and the lower income wage earners are in the same fix as they were before the wage increase. This is my observation over the years.

Ok you want a free market to set prices for everything BUT labor. I get it. You are an economic idiot.

37 posted on 08/03/2015 7:12:58 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: italianquaker

“I will never vote for Trump but this story is bs.”

So if he wins the nomination, you will be part of the sit at home contingent?


38 posted on 08/03/2015 7:15:28 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats are parasites. It really is that simple.)
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To: Dallas59

1100? Really? Compared to the tens of millions that have entered the country illegally?

Folks need to find something serious to complain about.


39 posted on 08/03/2015 7:17:49 AM PDT by moovova
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To: riverdawg

This involved everything in his & his wife’s lines from cufflinks to teddy bears if I recall, not only textiles. But I’m perfectly willing to hold off judgement until Trump has a chance to frame a response within the context of his current issue positions.


40 posted on 08/03/2015 7:35:33 AM PDT by erlayman
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