Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
Maybe I missed it, where in the article did it say she made $13 an hour? Furthermore, how do you know what all the other employers are paying their housekeepers? Remember, she is an illegal alien, not an H-2B visa worker. Yes, there are plenty of reasons employers hire illegal aliens (of course you know that). How do you know she is not making less than the H-2B foreign worker employees? How do you know they don't take advantage of her by making demands of her that they don't make of legal employees? All you seem to be doing is speculating because you have no proof to substantiate your comments.

By law there is a set wage Trump must pay his legal foreign workers, but that doesn't apply to an illegal. All he's required to pay her is minimum wage.

It's already an established fact that Trump's businesses like to keep down labor cost by taking advantage of the H2B visa program. We'll, hiring an illegals will keep the labor cost even lower.
It's in one of the articles that she was earning $13 an hour. She stated she made more at the golf club than at the hotel where she worked which is why she transferred to golf club when she saw the ad or heard about the job. In that article she said she was hired at $10 an hour 5 years ago. She's raised her salary almost 30% in 5 years, she's hardly an abused employee. No, Trump doesn't use the H2B program to keep down labor costs, the H2B program isn't about the rate of pay, it's about the availability of workers at certain times of the year at these resort areas. A full time housekeeper position isn't eligible for H2B.

If you're worried about wages, you need to look at all the Americans earning minimum wage doing much harder work than Morales cleaning a toilet and ironing some boxers at a fancy golf club resort to look for the impact of illegal immigration on American wages. It's not a worker who presents herself as a legal green card worker. Employers are forbidden from discriminating against a green card worker and an American citizen. Unfortunately they both have to be given the same opportunity to be hired. It's why Trump is so adamant about reducing the green card admissions and ending chain migration and why he wants to convert it to a merit-based system at much lower numbers with no chance for welfare or hauling your whole family tribe into the United States.