Mar-a-Lago files request to hire 61 foreign temporary workers

[whopis01]

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump's resort, Mar-a-Lago, filed a request to the Department of Labor for 61 additional visas for foreign servers and cooks, according to a Job Order Records filed on Thursday and Friday.

The Florida resort requested 61 H-2B visas, which are visas for temporary non-agricultural workers. In order to obtain H-2Bs, employers must prove that there are not enough US workers who are "able, willing, qualified, and available" to do the temporary work. 40 of the visas were for servers, while 21 were for cooks.

In January, the resort requested 70 H-2B visas for cooks, housekeepers, and servers.

The President has said before in a 2015 interview with MSNBC that "getting help in Palm Beach during the season is almost impossible." However, the New York Times reported in 2016 that since 2010, only 17 of 300 American applicants were hired at the club. And since October of 2015, Mar-a-Lago has filed 10 separate requests for H-2B visas.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/06/politics/mar-a-lago-foreign-workers-request/index.html

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He hired only 17 American applicants since 2010.

But since October of 2015, he has filed 10 separate requests for H-2B visas.
The latest requests were for 70 and 61 visas.

[Devil Child]

1. Walls, indefinite dentention, and border patrol searches for all

Except for Trump's ultra-rich playground servants. What's the matter Trump? No Americans able to fill those positions?

[Mc Mike]

2. Natch. Thanks, whopis, rec, nt.

[lagomorph777]

3. Probably 61 abducted children.

[kimbutgar]

4. Why can't he hire some of those cult members who have time to attend his insane rallies?

I’m sure he can find unemployed people who have ample time and can stop using oxy and meth to work his over priced gaudy place.

[ploppy]

5. Maybe some Antifa

folks are looking for work. They should check that out.

[SergeStorms]

8. Antifa....

stands for anti-fascist. These people are usually from the left, not the right. I don't agree with some of their tactics, but they're on the front lines fighting racists, white supremacists, and fascist Trumptards.

Maybe Trump can hire some of his 'incel' buddies? Then they could meet some nice right-wing, fascist women who are looking for lazy, smelly, un-washed "he-men" so often associated with the 'incel' movement.

[NCjack]

6. EPA ex-administrator Scott Pruitt, wife, and senior staff need jobs. All

offers will be considered.

[stuffmatters]

7. Trump has long skimmed & exploited the visa system for his own self enrichment.

Immigration Laws,esp visa policy, are seen as a wide open for profit opportunity to Trump. He & the Kushners have pocketed umpteen millions from rich Chinese & Russians who qualify for permanent "Investor Green Cards" when they spend over $500,000 on a shitty Trump, Kush condo in either development or restoration. Another recent discovery of another long standing Trump immigration for profit scheme revealed by the high residency % in Trump properties of wealthy pregnant foreigners: Trump essentially runs birth hotels for these rich foreign families. That's Trump"family policy" and those are the only immigrant babies he cares about bkz they put solid money in his pocket.

Despite the large local labor pools already available to perform the service & maintenance jobs on Trump properties, Trump deliberately avoids advertising jobs w/ in reasonable public visibility or outright just does not hire the American/resident applicants who show up. He prefers to exploit the tentative and vulnerable status of immigrants on these temporary work visas and zealously pursues these H28 visas for his properties. After all, these workers have little rights, can be easily cheated,underpaid and overworked, and always threatened with removal. This has always been the "ideal"Trump worker going back at least as far as building TrumpTower.

It's perverse that Trump, who publicly harrangues he's anti Immigration, pro American worker, has built a fortune skimming and exploiting
the US Govt Immigration System for his own vast self enrichment. .

[DiverDave]

9. Application APPROVED!!

Bet ya 50 bucks...

[jmowreader]

10. He's going at it the wrong way

I wonder why he doesn't offer internships to culinary arts, hospitality management and professional golf management students. The caliber of people he wants working at his places don't want temporary gigs like he offers...but students would snap up that opportunity.

[csziggy]

11. Considering Trump's long record of not paying and mistreating workers

No one should want to work for any of his businesses. He probably wants H-2B visa workers since they are less likely to sue for their rights and their pay.

USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills
Among those who say billionaire didn't pay: dishwashers, painters, waiters

Steve Reilly, USA TODAY

<SNIP>

Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.

At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.

Trump’s companies have also been cited for 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage, according to U.S. Department of Labor data. That includes 21 citations against the defunct Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and three against the also out-of-business Trump Mortgage LLC in New York. Both cases were resolved by the companies agreeing to pay back wages.

Litigator in chief

In addition to the lawsuits, the review found more than 200 mechanic’s liens — filed by contractors and employees against Trump, his companies or his properties claiming they were owed money for their work — since the 1980s. The liens range from a $75,000 claim by a Plainview, N.Y., air conditioning and heating company to a $1 million claim from the president of a New York City real estate banking firm. On just one project, Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, records released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 1990 show that at least 253 subcontractors weren’t paid in full or on time, including workers who installed walls, chandeliers and plumbing.

The actions in total paint a portrait of Trump’s sprawling organization frequently failing to pay small businesses and individuals, then sometimes tying them up in court and other negotiations for years. In some cases, the Trump teams financially overpower and outlast much smaller opponents, draining their resources. Some just give up the fight, or settle for less; some have ended up in bankruptcy or out of business altogether.

More: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

[MrQRO]

12. This has been a Big Bone of mine for years!

Once upon a time American teens were able to get summer jobs in resort towns, and beach towns, and pay their way through college
by working in the summers. But, guess what... Folks in those industries discovered the "J" visas, and now import workers from Eastern Europe, and God knows where, to fill summer jobs, resort jobs, and even Hershey Chocolate jobs! They pay them shite, treat them like dirt, and take advantage of them on a yuge level. They lose, we lose, but folks like Trump WIN big time! It's even worse than the whole H1-B mess, but it works well for the 1%, so... SHHHHHH! Don't say a word about these dirty little immigration secrets!!

[Jedi Guy]

13. Those days are long gone, I'm afraid.

Quite apart from the issue of who gets hired, tuition even at state schools is so horrifically expensive that a summer job will make a dent, if that much. It might cover books, I suppose.

I remember going to University of Arizona in the late 90s and early 2000s. In-state tuition then was around $1500ish per semester, as I recall. About ten years ago I chanced to look again and it had gone up considerably.

It'll only get worse, I'm afraid. A university education is rapidly being priced out of the reach of all but the wealthy, so the options left are grants and scholarships, or taking on ruinous amounts of debt. The latter in particular is already choking millions of people.

[Bengus81]

14. LOVE them wall jumpers when it works out for CHEAP labor eh Trump??

[treestar]

15. They will just argue they are legal, but

the number of those visas is very limited, so what if Donald of Orange does not get 61 of them?

[dalton99a]

16. Kick

[Beacool]

17. It's nothing new, he has done this for years at his clubs and wineries.

He has taken advantage of workers for decades. Trump Tower was built by around 150 Polish immigrants, some of them illegals who worked off-the-books. They worked without basic safety equipment, like hardhats and gloves. They were supposed to earn $5 an hour, but for weeks they were paid nothing.

Trump is a despicable POS as a person, aside from his politics. He's a truly repugnant man without any redeemable qualities that I can see. I can't believe that this lowlife is in the WH.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Kick (nt)