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struggle4progress

(118,379 posts) Tue Apr 18, 2017, 06:52 PM Apr 2017

Family's long history with immigration

By Tal Kopan and Curt Devine, CNN
Updated 3:36 PM ET, Tue April 18, 2017

... The Trump family's business ventures have made use of virtually every part of the US immigration system over time -- including reported instances of illegal labor on two Trump-branded building projects.

Businesses run and owned by Trump and his adult children have been certified to legally hire 1,371 foreign visa workers since 2001, a CNN analysis of visa records shows. In addition, Trump-branded real estate has raised at least $50 million in foreign investor money through a program that gives foreign investors access to green cards, according to the company that did the development of the real estate ...

... the Trumps' businesses have received 283 H-1B visas since 2001. The high-skilled visas have been used for Trump's modeling venture, Trump Model Management, Mar-A-Lago, the Trump Corporation and businesses associated with his hotels and resorts ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/politics/trump-family-immigration-visas/

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Family's long history with immigration (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2017 OP

History of using foreign workers in his business ventures struggle4progress Apr 2017 #1

Companies don't always follow his 'buy American, hire American' pledge struggle4progress Apr 2017 #2

Buy American mantra is hypocritical struggle4progress Apr 2017 #3

struggle4progress

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1. History of using foreign workers in his business ventures

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Tue Apr 18, 2017, 06:59 PM

Apr 2017

By KATHERINE FAULDERS
& ADAM KELSEY
Apr 18, 2017, 3:59 PM ET

... during the .. winter season from the end of 2015 through the beginning of 2016, Mar-a-Lago administrators requested 69 foreign workers to fill positions as housekeepers, waiters and cooks ... Mar-a-Lago requested 90 visas in 2014 and 87 in 2013 ...

A job order request was filed with the Department of Labor in February by Trump Winery in Charlottesville, Virginia, petitioning for H-2A temporary work visas for 23 foreign workers ... Trump Vineyard Estates LLC is currently run and owned by .. Eric Trump ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-history-foreign-workers-properties/story?id=46862305

struggle4progress

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2. Companies don't always follow his 'buy American, hire American' pledge

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Tue Apr 18, 2017, 07:05 PM

Apr 2017

Jacob Pramuk
2 Hours Ago

... shipments of Chinese-made dresses bearing the brand of Trump's daughter Ivanka have continued to be shipped into the United States since Trump took office ...

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/18/trump-companies-dont-always-buy-american-hire-american.html

struggle4progress

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3. Buy American mantra is hypocritical

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Tue Apr 18, 2017, 07:08 PM

Apr 2017

By Philip Bump
April 18 at 11:34 AM

... In a 2012 segment made famous in a Hillary Clinton ad last year, former CBS talk show host David Letterman confronted Trump on his clothing line.

“Where are the shirts made?” Letterman asked. “Bangladesh” ...

Trump’s affinity for producing his clothing line overseas is so well-established that even foreign leaders have used it to score points against him ...

“Since Election Day,” NBC reported, “the apparel brand run by Trump’s daughter has imported 56 shipments of Ivanka Trump products from China and Singapore, part of a total of 215 shipments from Asia since Jan. 1, 2016” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/04/18/the-many-ways-in-which-trumps-buy-american-mantra-is-hypocritical/?utm_term=.6859100e4867

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