FORMER MODELS FOR DONALD TRUMP'S AGENCY SAY THEY VIOLATED IMMIGRATION RULES AND WORKED ILLEGALLY

[blogslut]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-models-illegal-immigration

Republican nominee Donald Trump has placed immigration at the core of his presidential campaign. He has claimed that undocumented immigrants are "taking our jobs" and "taking our money," pledged to deport them en masse, and vowed to build a wall on the Mexican border. At one point he demanded a ban on Muslims entering the country. Speaking to supporters in Iowa on Saturday, Trump said he would crack down on visitors to the United States who overstay their visas and declared that when any American citizen "loses their job to an illegal immigrant, the rights of that American citizen have been violated." And he is scheduled to give a major address on immigration in Arizona on Wednesday night.

But the mogul's New York modeling agency, Trump Model Management, has profited from using foreign models who came to the United States on tourist visas that did not permit them to work here, according to three former Trump models, all noncitizens, who shared their stories with Mother Jones. Financial and immigration records included in a recent lawsuit filed by a fourth former Trump model show that she, too, worked for Trump's agency in the United States without a proper visa.

Foreigners who visit the United States as tourists are generally not permitted to engage in any sort of employment unless they obtain a special visa, a process that typically entails an employer applying for approval on behalf of a prospective employee. Employers risk fines and possible criminal charges for using undocumented labor.

Founded in 1999, Trump Model Management "has risen to the top of the fashion market," boasts the Trump Organization's website, and has a name "that symbolizes success." According to a financial disclosure filed by his campaign in May, Donald Trump earned nearly $2 million from the company, in which he holds an 85 percent stake. Meanwhile, some former Trump models say they barely made any money working for the agency because of the high fees for rent and other expenses that were charged by the company...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Duplicate of existing LBN thread with more recs and replies

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141562039

[imanamerican63]

2. Does this include his wife?

[napkinz]

3. Chris Hayes covering the story now on MSNBC

[malaise]

4. One of the Jamaican models sued him

The case was dismissed.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-model-felt-slave-working-donalds-agency/story?id=37313993
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Trump's attorney, Alan Garten, disputed Palmer’s claim, saying she was treated the same as any other fashion industry prospect and made little money because “she had a lack of work."

“Anything she's saying about being treated as a slave is completely untrue,” Garten said. “The greater demand for the model, the better that model does. In the case of the individual you're talking about, there wasn't -- unfortunately -- a lot of demand for the model.”

Immigration experts told ABC News that this type of arrangement -- bringing in a worker on a promise of pay that never comes -- is a troubling abuse of the foreign work program.

“I'd say that somebody's got some explaining to do,” said Robert Divine, a former chief counsel to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services agency during the Bush administration. “It would be extraordinarily unusual for that to be legal.”

[napkinz]

5. "I'd say that somebody's got some explaining to do"

Will the MSM ask Trump to explain or will they let it slide? Will they confront Trump?

[malaise]

6. Well they've given him a pass so far

This all came out during that case

[Gabi Hayes]

7. but but but, Uday just told anderson cooper that a story like this would be played to death

in the liberal media, and any conservative would never survive the onslaught, whereas they just IGNORE the email/CGI story!

he really said that....I started a thread on Cooper's journalistic malpractice with the trumpspawn

[napkinz]

10. "Cooper's journalistic malpractice"

he's not the only one

most in the media have been derelict

[Gabi Hayes]

8. this story will get the same play as this one:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/donald-says-controversy-over-his-tower-was-trumped-n397821

lots more....it's been discussed here, and brought up by Rubio during the primaries, and, of course, has been ignored by the liberal medial

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=trump+polish+workers+lawsuit

[lindysalsagal]

9. fRumpers will think this is exactly how we should handle foreign women

It won't cost him a single vote.

[spanone]

11. this would be a huge scandal if it were the clintons....but the media yawns

[napkinz]

12. the media needs to confront Trump on this story and his HYPOCRISY!

You're right. If it were Hillary, this would be "BREAKING NEWS: THE LATEST CLINTON SCANDAL". CNN, MSNBC, and of course FOX would have commentators on all day discussing it.

[napkinz]

13. kick