Trump Says Mar-A-Lago Can't Find US Workers To Hire. New Documents Show Dozens Applied.

[Judi Lynn]

Trump often says his resorts have no choice but to hire foreign guest workers — there just aren’t any Americans to take the jobs. But government records show nearly 60 US residents applied for those jobs, and only one was hired.


Ken Bensinger
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Jeremy Singer-Vine
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Jessica Garrison
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on April 26, 2019, at 8:23 a.m. ET

For years, President Donald Trump has insisted it’s impossible to find Americans to fill seasonal jobs at his hotels, resorts, and wineries, leaving him no choice but to hire foreign guest workers instead.

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But government records obtained by BuzzFeed News reveal for the first time that at least 58 US workers applied for the temporary jobs as cooks, servers, and housekeepers at Mar-a-Lago and other Trump resorts from early 2014 through mid-2018.

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Instead of giving jobs to local workers, the Trump properties applied for permission to bring in more than 375 low-wage workers from abroad on short-term visas. All of the requests were approved by the Department of Labor, the records, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, show.

More:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/mar-a-lago-rejected-dozens-of-americans-in-favor-of-foreign

[struggle4progress]

1. "We can't keep their wages low when we can't threaten to deport them!"

[thegoose]

2. Because Dumpster pays shit

If at all. Fucking huckster.

[louis-t]

3. You mean he lied?

I'm shocked, I tell you.

[11 Bravo]

9. His lips moved, so ... yeah.

[Solly Mack]

4. Trump is, as always, FOS.

[Windy City Charlie]

5. Which goes to show

The Republicans talk a good game about shutting off the borders and such, but that's all it is is talk to their voting base to make it seem like they want to do something about illegal immigration. The problem is, they don't want to shut it off, either, because they're able to take advantage of it themselves. Their biggest donors (corporate farms, for example) like having them come here so they can hire them and pay them under minimum wage, knowing if they complain, all they have to do is threaten to have them deported to shut them up.

[Ohiogal]

6. You can't believe anything he says.

[Indykatie]

7. Trump has No Desire to Find Local Workers. He Makes it Very Hard to Even Apply.

As of last year the only way to apply was by faxing your application or resume using the old dial-up fax methodology. This is South Florida so finding workers in the hospitality industry can't be that hard if you really tried.

[sdfernando]

8. I'm sure a good many of those foreign workers are

rather young pretty girls. Wonder where they are actually working?

You see, this is the only way he can get them in without too much notice.