Thread: Undocumented housekeeper at Trump golf course says she does not regret going public

Originally Posted by Judy

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.

Of course H2B is about lower wages! Without the available cheaper labor, wages would increase. There is no evidence of a labor shortage, especially at the bottom end of the labor market. If there was, wages and benefits would be increasing noticeably and that's not happening and hasn't happened in decades.

I can't believe you've fell hook line and sinker for the myth being perpetrated by tourist and other seasonal businesses. This is all being done so greedy businesses can continue to reap the rewards of cheap labor. Yes, the H2B visa program is part of it. Oh, and you're wrong about housekeepers not being eligible for the H2B program. Skilled and non-skilled labor is eligible and that includes lifeguards, housekeepers, servers, cooks, etc. They're eligible in 10 month increments.

The increasing reliance on foreign workers (legal and illegal) has caused the social networks and recruitment practices once used to attract native-born Americans to atrophy, creating the impression there are no workers.