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Trump lifted the cap on H-2B worker visas. Then his businesses asked for 76 of them.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by hlcc, Jul 21, 2017.

  1. hlcc

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    #1 hlcc, Jul 21, 2017
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    you can't make this **** up
     
    #2 LosPollosHermanos, Jul 21, 2017
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    Doing whatever it takes to bend or circumvent the law makes him a good businessman.

    Genius!
     
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    I'm not even mad. I'm impressed.
     
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    I'm surprised the buffoon didn't just raise the cap number of allowable visas from 66,000 to 66,076.
     
    #5 Rashmon, Jul 21, 2017
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    What did he promise before the election about H-2B?
     
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    What a smug, liberal, coastal point of view for the OP to promote, especially during "Made in America" week.
     
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    The people who supports Trump probably believed in the arc as well.

     
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    earlier this week, the White House launched its "Made in America, hire Americans" initiative to promote American jobs and products.

    the H-2B visa program allows foreigners to fill temporary non-agriculture jobs in the United States that supposedly cannot be filled by US workers.

    Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club and his golf course in Jupiter, Florida, have filed documents to bring in additional foreign workers under the H-2B visa program. seeking to hire 15 housekeepers, 20 cooks and 35 servers.

    An analysis of visa records in April found businesses run and owned by Trump and his adult children have been certified to hire at least 1,371 foreign visa workers since 2001.




    http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/politics/mar-a-lago-foreign-visas/index.html
     
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    This is the part that I really don't understand. H-1B are limited to skilled foreign workers, so it's at least somewhat reasonable and believable for companies to claim they are not able to find a US worker with equivalent skill. But H-2B are for unskilled labor, I have a very hard time believing that Trump can't find 76 American waitress, cook & housekeeper. Apparently Trump likes to hire Romanians for his various resorts.
     
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    You have to give him credit - he gets away with it. It's funny how all the people who complain about the Clintons and how corrupt any democrat might be, don't have any problem with this. Just goes to show they never cared about corruption, it was all about team politics.
     
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    Any debate with people who voted from Trump in the future would be easy, just say you voted for Trump.
     
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    The state of Kentucky ended up offering $43 million in tax credits & spending $11 million on upgrading the interstate exchange around this monstrosity... money well spend indeed.
     
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    How did the animals get fed on the arc? I know, God took care of the animals.
     
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    Drumpf will probably just say he has no influence over these kinds of things because his assets are in a blind trust.

    Oh wait....

    (Came into the thread looking for "Show Ignored Content" link and didn't see it. I am disappoint.)
     
    #15 calurker, Jul 23, 2017
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    The alt-rights like @bigtexxx hide from this thread - even they are ashamed
     
    #16 Sweet Lou 4 2, Jul 24, 2017
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    Assuming they had the ability to be ashamed.
     
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