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    A flash to the past that proves Trump has no qualms about bringing in more foreign labor to work jobs Americans will work for a reasonable wage. Trump 'has always' or 'has finally' bought into the "cheap labor" needs being pushed by the Chamber of Commerce, corporations and big business. Americans will work the H-2B jobs.

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    U.S. allows more seasonal workers as Trump pushes 'hire American'

    JULY 17, 2017 / 11:46 AM / 9 MONTHS AGO



    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government cleared the way on Monday for thousands more foreign workers to enter the country under temporary seasonal visas, just as President Donald Trump declared this “Made In America” week and pledged to stand up for U.S. workers.

    Advocates of stricter limits on immigration criticized the additional visas, saying American workers should get job openings.

    Trump, a former New York real estate magnate who has relied on seasonal workers at his hotels and resorts, campaigned on promises to restore American jobs. On Monday, he showcased “Made in America” products at the White House and made an impassioned defense of America First policies.

    “We’re going to stand up for our companies and maybe most importantly for our workers,” the Republican president said. “Clearly it’s time for a new policy, one defined by two simple rules: We will buy American. And we will hire American.”

    Federal officials said there were not enough qualified and willing American workers available to perform certain types of temporary nonagricultural work.

    As a result, the government will allow 15,000 additional visas for temporary seasonal workers, meant to help American businesses in danger of suffering irreparable harm because of a shortage of such labor, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.


    “As a demonstration of the administration’s commitment to supporting American businesses, DHS is providing this one-time increase to the congressionally set annual cap,” Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly said in a statement.

    Many seasonal businesses such as resorts, landscaping companies and seafood harvesters and processors had sought permission to temporarily hire more immigrants.

    Congress originally set the cap at 66,000 workers for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. In May, lawmakers gave Kelly authority to approve up to an additional 70,000 temporary visas and pleaded with him to use his authority to issue as many of them as he thought appropriate.

    Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a group that supports immigration controls, said in a statement the decision “threatens to reverse the trend of reports emerging around the country of employers working harder and raising pay to successfully recruit more unemployed Americans for lower-skilled jobs.”

    Beck said it was “yet another example of the administration and Congress failing to keep the Trump campaign promise of putting American workers first.”

    ‘MINIMAL RELIEF GRANTED’

    Trump campaigned on an "America First" platform of favoring Americans for hiring. Trump's golf resorts in Florida have used the visas, however, to hire temporary guest workers (reut.rs/1R4pKma).

    The clothing line of the president’s older daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, uses foreign factories employing low-wage workers in countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and China, a recent Washington Post report showed.

    A group of U.S. companies that use the visas, called the “the H-2B Workforce Coalition,” praised the “minimal relief granted.” It said: “From landscapers in Colorado to innkeepers in Maine to seafood processors along the Gulf Coast to carnivals nationwide, we hope the visa expansion will help some businesses avoid substantial financial loss, and in some cases, prevent early business closures during their peak season.”

    A report on Monday by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, found, however, there was little evidence of worker shortages in H-2B jobs at the national level.

    “Expanding the H-2B program without reforming it to improve protections and increase wages for migrant workers will essentially allow unscrupulous employers to carve out an even larger rights-free zone in the low-wage labor market,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the institute.

    Kelly has acknowledged that many temporary workers “are victimized when they come up here, in terms of what they’re paid.”
    DHS said the government had created a tip line to report any abuse of the visas or employer violations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I'm talking about who you are going to support for President in 2020, not your next phony attack on Trump. That's the laugh at you I'm waiting to have.

    Being a supporter doesn't necessarily make one a cheerleader. I never have been good at the cheerleader game, I'm more the type that will hold someones feet to the fire when I believe they are in the wrong.

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    LOL!! Your article is the same date as the other articles, July of LAST YEAR, 2017. It was a one time increase agreed to because Thom Tillis was refusing to approve one of Trump's nominees. Levels are already back where they were before the increase, the workers have come, worked and left.

    This is old news from almost a year ago and has nothing to do with Trump's speech in Michigan last night.

    Breitbart ran a totally false headline, that is a fact. Good journalists do not do that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post


    Being a supporter doesn't necessarily make one a cheerleader. I never have been good at the cheerleader game, I'm more the type that will hold someones feet to the fire when I believe they are in the wrong.
    Being a Trump Supporter is not being you. You never were, never will be, and that's a fact and for Trump, a blessing. With supporters like you, who needs enemies??!! Life's too short and politics even briefer. Don't waste your time on people who have decided to hurt you, go find new people who want what's best for our country and that's what Trump is going to do and is doing. He's SMART!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Being a Trump Supporter is not being you. You never were, never will be, and that's a fact and for Trump, a blessing. With supporters like you, who needs enemies??!! Life's too short and politics even briefer. Don't waste your time on people who have decided to hurt you, go find new people who want what's best for our country and that's what Trump is going to do and is doing. He's SMART!!
    Ouch ...... guessed I touched a button. The truth can do that at times.

    All the deflection and obfuscation in the world isn't going to change the fact that Trump has supported increases of foreign labor in the past and will probably do it again in the future as he implied during his Michigan rally. His own beloved Mar-a-Lago has used H-2B visa laborers over American workers. You can't excuse these facts away.

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    LOL!! I'm not excusing the fact that DHS agreed to issue 15,000 more visas last year. There was a follow up article last year that the rules Trump was making them follow through the US Department of Labor were so hard to meet that most people weren't even bothering to apply for them even though they were available. Same with the H1B visas. They may do it again sometime in the future, I don't know, but what he did last year or may do in the future has nothing to do with what he said in his speech in Michigan last night. The headline was false, deliberately false, and was done to get clicks. That's a fact, because Trump said absolutely nothing about "more".
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    President Trump Pushes for More Foreign Guest Workers, H2-Bs, Migrant Farm Workers at Michigan Rally
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    President Trump Pushes for More Foreign Guest Workers, H2-Bs, Migrant Farm Workers at Michigan Rally
    Liars, Liars, No "more" There.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    LOL!! I'm not excusing the fact that DHS agreed to issue 15,000 more visas last year. There was a follow up article last year that the rules Trump was making them follow through the US Department of Labor were so hard to meet that most people weren't even bothering to apply for them even though they were available. Same with the H1B visas. They may do it again sometime in the future, I don't know, but what he did last year or may do in the future has nothing to do with what he said in his speech in Michigan last night. The headline was false, deliberately false, and was done to get clicks. That's a fact, because Trump said absolutely nothing about "more".
    I would certainly be interested in seeing proof that those extra H-2B visas offered by the Trump administration weren't used. Got any, didn't think so! Trump is a big supporter of the H-2B visa program and has used it regularly to fill jobs that Americans will do in his own businesses. Anyone that thinks Trump does not support foreign labor visas and hasn't used them repeatedly for his own businesses has not been paying attention. The "hire American" slogan was nice for his presidential campaign and continues to work for him from time to time. However, nobody should be fooled into believing he has always supported American workers over foreign labor.


    Donald Trump’s companies tried to import at least 1,100 foreign workers

    http://fortune.com/2015/08/03/donald...workers-visas/

    Trump Winery under fire after applying for visas seeking foreign workers

    http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/20...n-workers.html

    Even though I only linked two, there are a lot of stories on his hiring of foreign labor over American workers. These are jobs that many Americans would love to have. Several of the articles I read even stated he only did the bare minimum to meet requirements for the visas.

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    This is not news and has nothing to do with the fake headline on the Breitbart article. Everyone knows Trump hires seasonal foreign workers for some of his resorts, he told us all about it many times during the campaign, so we all knew that when we voted for him. The DemoQuacks tried to make a HUUUGE deal out of it, like you're doing now.

    Hmmmm.

    But it didn't work! Trump Supporters have a lot of common sense and we know that getting Americans down to Florida or other high-brow locations without workers for a 90 day low-wage job during Thanksgiving and Christmas is NOT going to get very many takers because we all want to be home with our families during those holidays! Besides, there's all those temporary jobs in stores right where they live at that time of the year.

    Sooooo, why don't you know that??!!
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