Trump Gets Visas For 70 Foreign Workers At Mar-a-Lago Despite ‘Hire American’ Pledge

The Trump Organization has secured visas to rent 70 overseas employees who will probably be employed through the 2017-18 season as maids, cooks, and servers.

Despite working on an ‘American jobs’ ticket, Trump’s former firm – which is presently run by his sons Donald Jr. and Eric – has opted to tackle overseas labor on the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, which is dubbed the ‘Winter White House.’

Trump has beforehand defended hiring employees from outdoors the U.S., stating again in 2016 when he was questioned by Senator Marco Rubio about hiring overseas labor: “It’s very, very hard to get people. Other hotels do the exact same thing.”

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President Donald Trump speaks at a gathering with enterprise leaders on tax reform on the White House, on October 31. The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., has been utilized by members of Trump’s Cabinet, a quantity of Republicans and different teams holding conferences in Washington. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Indeed, the variety of visas issued for overseas employees at Mar-a-Lago has elevated this 12 months, up from 64 employees through the 2016-17 winter season, regardless of the president’s “buy American, hire American” pledge.

Indeed, signing an government order in April on the very matter of defending American jobs, Trump said: “It’s America first, you better believe it. It’s time. It’s time, right?,” additionally promising to “aggressively promote and use American-made items and to make sure that American labor is employed to do the job.”

And though the president has beforehand argued it’s troublesome to search out employees to workers his unique Mar-a-Lago resort, nonprofit job placement company ProfessionSource Palm Beach County stated there have been loads of employees primarily based contained in the U.S. who may tackle the roles.

“We presently have 5,136 certified candidates in Palm Beach County for varied hospitality positions listed within the Employ Florida state jobs database,” ProfessionSource spokesman Tom Veenstra advised the Palm Beach Post.

But Mar-a-Lago shouldn’t be alone in hiring overseas employees to workers resort properties, with employers within the Palm Beach space the place Trump’s unique membership relies permitted to rent 2,159 overseas employees for non permanent jobs over winter; with a powerful native financial system suggesting there’s a have to outsource jobs to overseas employees.