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Trump Org maybe helping fuel visa overstays??
Exclusive: Trump’s Companies Boosted Foreign Worker Visa Use To 10-Year High
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/donald-trump-companies-foreign-worker-visas
The Trump Organization requested and received at least 192 visas for foreign workers in 2018, according to Department of Labor data. That number appears to be the highest for the company going back to at least 2008 and likely much earlier, based on public records.
The nearly two decades’ worth of data were pulled together by the Democratic research group American Bridge and shared with TPM, which then reviewed the raw Labor Department information files.Those visas were almost entirely for the type of low-skilled foreign workers that Trump has claimed drive down American wages. Cooks, servers, housekeepers and farmworkers make up a large chunk of the Trump Organization’s requests, most of them making between $10 and $15 hourly.
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The largest number of the Trump Organization’s foreign worker visas in 2018, like in most years, went to his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida. The “Winter White House” where Trump spends much of his time received 78 temporary foreign worker visas last year for waiters, cooks and maids.
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But the available data strongly suggest that the Trump Organization’s heavy use of H2A and H2B visas didn’t begin until 2006, when Mar-a-Lago started hiring foreign temporary workers. Before that, it appears that the only part of the Trump empire that used visas as a regular part of its operation was the Trump Model Management Group, which used H1B visas meant for highly skilled workers to bring in foreign models. That means that the 192 visas the Trump Organization received in 2018 likely represent the largest number they received in the last 18 years.
The nearly two decades’ worth of data were pulled together by the Democratic research group American Bridge and shared with TPM, which then reviewed the raw Labor Department information files.Those visas were almost entirely for the type of low-skilled foreign workers that Trump has claimed drive down American wages. Cooks, servers, housekeepers and farmworkers make up a large chunk of the Trump Organization’s requests, most of them making between $10 and $15 hourly.
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The largest number of the Trump Organization’s foreign worker visas in 2018, like in most years, went to his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida. The “Winter White House” where Trump spends much of his time received 78 temporary foreign worker visas last year for waiters, cooks and maids.
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But the available data strongly suggest that the Trump Organization’s heavy use of H2A and H2B visas didn’t begin until 2006, when Mar-a-Lago started hiring foreign temporary workers. Before that, it appears that the only part of the Trump empire that used visas as a regular part of its operation was the Trump Model Management Group, which used H1B visas meant for highly skilled workers to bring in foreign models. That means that the 192 visas the Trump Organization received in 2018 likely represent the largest number they received in the last 18 years.
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