Donald Trump’s companies have sought visas to import at least 1100

Real estate mogul Donald Trump might be pinning his presidential bid on the promise to win back American jobs from overseas, but his companies are taking a different tactic.

Reuters reports that in just the last month Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida applied for 70 visas for foreign workers because they could be paid lower wages than American workers, even as Trump hit the campaign trail denigrating Mexicans as rapists and drug dealers.

A Reuters examination of Simply.S. federal figures establishes that this can be bau within the New York home magnate’s territory.

“Trump owns companies that have sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas since 2000,” Reuters reported, citing data from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Nine companies majority-owned by Trump have sought to usher in unfamiliar waiters, sous-chef, winery workers along with other workers on short-term work-visa plans with a the Labor Department.

One of Trump’s companies is seeking foreign talent for an assistant golf-course superintendent, an assistant hotel manager and a banquet manager.

Two Trump companies wanted 250 visas for foreign fashion models, despite the fact that as the man behind the Miss America beauty pageant, Trump’s businesses had access to thousands of American models.

Those comments led to fierce pushback from Latino groups, and some businesses severed their ties with Trump in the aftermath, including NBC, where Trump hosted “The Apprentice” reality show for over a decade.

The analysis of Trump’s history of actively importing foreign workers comes as he has emerged as an early front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination in the November 2016 presidential election. “I’ll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many places”.

During that same speech Mr. Trump made controversial remarks on immigration, saying Mexico isn’t sending its best people to the U.S.

In Trump’s presidential announcement, he positioned himself as a “leader that can bring back our jobs, can bring back our manufacturing” and has promised several times over the course of his campaign to take them back from competing countries.

Trump generated both notoriety and buzz by singling out Mexican immigrants in the United States. A 2010 population survey from the Brookings Institute found that more than 200,00 foreign-born workers are employed in the field, and another 1.3 million foreign-born workers are employed in the food service industry. His companies have largely brought in the temporary workers through the H-2B visa program, which brings in mostly workers from Mexico. In 2013, Mexicans made up more than 80 percent of the 104,993 H-2B visa admissions.

The H-2B program, which receives little government oversight, is used by companies in sectors ranging from hospitality to forestry to hire foreign workers for temporary jobs. Corporations should show that they’ve tried and failed to seek out American staff for these jobs.

U.S. government watchdogs have criticized the H-2B and H-2A programs over the years for failing to protect foreign and American workers alike.