Trump companies hire foreign workers

Under the refined policy, Trump wants the US to do everything to stop illegal immigration, including building a wall on the southern border – which he insists Mexico will pay for – and deport the entire undocumented immigrant population, but bring them back into the country legally.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is running on a message of bringing jobs back to the U.S., but since 2000, Trump’s companies have sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary work visas. Nine companies, which Trump has majority stakes in, have tried to bring in at least 1,100 foreign employees to work as cooks, wait staff, vineyard hands and other miscellaneous laborers under a short-term work visa program.

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.

Reuters found that most of the visa requests were granted, as Trump himself has vowed to create and protect jobs for American workers.

“I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created”, he said during his presidential announcement on June 16, Time reported. “I’ll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many places. I will bring back jobs and our money”.

Data shows that Trump is likely importing a large number of Mexican immigrants through the visas.

During that same speech Mr. Trump made controversial remarks on immigration, saying Mexico isn’t sending its best people to the U.S. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime”. He said thousands of legal Mexican immigrants, who he called “incredible people”, have worked for his business empire. Mexicans made up more than 80 percent of the 104,993 admissions to the United States on H-2B visas in 2013.

The program receives little oversight and federal watchdogs have criticized both the H-2B and H-2A programs for failing to protect foreign and American workers.

In 2003, the Labor Department Inspector General said: “Abuses of these programmes may result in economic harm to American workers and businesses, exploitation of foreign workers, and security risks associated with aliens who are admitted to this country by fraudulent means”.