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By *asyuk OP Man
over a year ago
West London |
"While President Donald Trump rails at American companies that hire foreign workers, he's not following his own advice. Of 144 openings at three of his properties, including Mar-a-Lago, only a single one went to an American, according to Department of Labor records. The rest went to seasonal foreign workers in the U.S. on special visas requested by the Trump Organization, reports Vox.
Mar-a-Lago was granted 70 visas to bring in foreign workers just last year for the winter season beginning in October. That was a 9 percent increase over the previous year.
Since 2010 Mar-a-Lago alone has obtained a total of 500 H-2B visas for seasonal workers, many of them from Haiti and Romania, sources have told The New Yorker.
Companies are required to run two want ads in local newspapers before applying for foreign worker visas. Mar-a-Lago placed two hard-to-find classified ads in tiny type with no phone number or email information, according to a Washington Post report last year. Workers could apply for the jobs only by fax or mail.
CareerSource Palm Beach County, a nonprofit placement agency, told The Palm Beach Post at the time that they had thousands of Americans eager to work at Mar-a-Lago."
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You don't think they're trying to make it difficult to hire local staff, by having such obscure job ads? Many posts shift the burden of proof onto employers, that there isn't a reasonable chance of finding qualified staff in the whole of the US. And in any event, these staff should only cover a temporary need - which repeated use of the system hints very strongly that this is more than a temporary need. |
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