Barbara Boxer Calls For Probe Into Trump Organization Immigration Scandal

[yuiyoshida]

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) called for a federal investigation into Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s modeling agency on Wednesday over allegations Trump Model Management intentionally hired foreign models without the proper visas to legally work in the United States.

“I am extremely concerned by the claims levied against Trump Model Management and ask that you open an investigation into the company’s employment practices,” Boxer wrote in a letter addressed to León Rodríguez, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency director. “I hope you will make clear that immigration and labor violations like these will not be tolerated.”

The letter cited firsthand accounts by several former Trump models and a Mother Jones report, which interviewed foreign models who worked on tourist visas that did not give them permission to work in the country legally.

Two former models told the publication that “they were coached on how to evade the scrutiny of immigration and customs officers by using fake pretenses for entering the country and even writing false addresses on customs forms.”

After Mother Jones published the piece in late August, Boxer issued a scathing criticism of Trump on Twitter.

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https://thinkprogress.org/senate-democrat-calls-for-federal-probe-into-trump-organizations-hiring-of-immigrant-models-16a2df1b61bf

[world wide wally]

1. It's about time!

[RexCasual]

2. It's as good a place as any to start. . .

But what about the myriad other scandals he's been associated with over the last four decades?

What about his flagrant bribing of public officials (Fl. AG Bondi & Texas AG/Gov. Greg Abbot?) to get a pass on the Trump U lawsuits?

What about sending emails soliciting the (illegal) donations of foreign governments and politicians, then sending out a second wave of them after the first wave had already been reported and made public.

What about allegations that he raped a 14 year old girl at the home of a convicted pedophile and admitted friend? (And on more than one occasion, to boot!)

I could go on, ad nauseam, but my point is this: Where is the Attorney General and the Justice Department? Where are the federal and state agencies that are supposed to police these things? Why is Donald not being held accountable for the many things he has done and alleged to have done? It's absolutely sickening that this charade has been allowed to go on this long.

[Rex]

3. Why does the press keep giving him an easy time? Trump lives in lawsuits.

Trump gets away with way too much. Typical plutocrat.

[napkinz]

4. K&R