Posted on 02/26/2016 9:26:16 AM PST by dschapin
The news that Donald Trump turned down 94 percent of American job applicants to his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., in favor of foreign workers brought in under the H-2B visa program should come as a surprise to absolutely no one.... [During] the campaign season, Trump has proven himself a liar of Clintonian proportions, and there has never been any reason to believe that he was somehow more trustworthy when it came to his rhetorical opposition to America's foolish immigration policies ...
And, indeed, this turns out not to be the first time that Donald Trump has undermined American workers to expand his profit margin. That has been his M.O. throughout his career.
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Donald humbly referred to Trump Tower as “The Most Important Project in the World.â€
Apparently, the first leg of the project was too important to entrust to American workers. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court, members of House Wreckers Local 95 alleged that, to avoid paying union employees their pension and welfare benefits, Trump (and the contractor he used for the job, Kaszycki & Sons) brought in some 200 undocumented Polish workers to demolish the Bonwit Teller building that then occupied the site of the future Trump Tower.
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Some three decades later, nothing has changed. Last year, the Washington Post reported that Trump is using undocumented workers in the construction work on his much-feted project to convert Washington, D.C.’s Old Post Office Pavilion into a luxury hotel...
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...Donald Trump’s professional history is one of undermining American workers — by exploiting the law wherever possible and, when that’s not enough, breaking it outright. Donald Trump is not looking out for American workers. He is looking out for his own pocketbook. That’s not going to change by putting him in the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
This is bullcr*p. Trump hires more American workers than any of the other candidates. He is obliged to hire some foreign workers because his opponents have made it necessary if business people want to survive. But if he had his way, then that would no longer be the case.
What kind of nonsense is it for people to pass laws making it necessary to hire foreign workers in order to compete in the marketplace, and then blaming Trump for doing what they are forcing him to do.
In effect, Cruz and Rubio’s positions are that illegals should be allowed to pour into the country and get jobs. And then they blame Trump for having to go along with the deal.
Bogus, bogus, bogus.
Part-time seasonal jobs in Southeast Florida (or most resort areas) are very hard to fill. We could simply kill that particular program and employers would have to pay enough to get decent employees (and also pay through the nose when they go on unemployment in the offseason), but you can’t expect one employer to pass on the more cost effective, legal option when its competitors are taking advantage of it.
Wait, if gay marriage and abortion and men in the girls restroom is okay, what right do you have to complain?
This was 1979. Old News. Damn when you look at Rubio’s Cuban drug dealing, gambling, mafia types plus Cruz’s BS like below, going back to 79 is par for the course for these low life’s. Cruz even published false official looking documents to scare Iowa voters and he lied about Carson. Both Cruz and Rubio gave Obama fast track.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/239750-ted-cruz-joins-the-establishment
Another outright lie from the Cruz people. He hires plenty of American people. You guys are fast and loose with the truth.
What you fail to admit is the American visa program is being abused by businesses. They don’t have to be large ones either. Farmers use illegals all the time.
What Ted wants to do insure that Americans are hired first and if there is not enough skilled workers here, then they can apply for visas to fill the vacant jobs.
Trump wasn’t going to hire any Americans. Period. Wasn’t going to give em a chance. Big, huge, difference there.
That all you got? Oh by all means lets put cabana boy or Canadian boy in there..that’ll fix all our problems
Before big government got involved in enslaving students with loans, college kids worked each summer to pay for college.
National Review fail.
As soon as he mandates an 80% tax rates & gives an American uranium field to the Russians he will be appointed president of this once great nation.
Trump did not manufacture those ties Macy’s did!!!! Trump gave Macy’s the right to his name, on the products!!! Just like Make America Great Again items if they are on Trumps web site they are made in America, amazon cheaper products made in China!!!!
Who a person marries is their own damn business.
“Trump has hired more illegals, committed adultery, filed bankruptcy, flip flopped and lied more than any candidate in history.”
Now there, ladies and gentlemen, is a bold statement. However, I’ll just call it an abuse of the power of suggestion.
NR...nuff said.
And college was way more cost effective.
Well that makes it all ok. He didn’t know those ties he got paid for putting his name on were being made in China.
If this country ENFORCED E-Verify all workers would be working legally, even then MANY, MANY folks are working with documents paid for on the streets!! My social security was used in this way about 7 years ago it was a mess!!!! Received bills from IRS for taxes owed it was a nightmare!!!!
What Ted wants to do insure that Americans are hired first ...by supporting Gang of eight member La Raza Marco Rubio.
The article also shows that Trump is still using illegal immigrant labor in his current jobs. If you had actually read the excerpt you would see that it talked about the fact that illegals are currently working on his DC project.
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