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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Katelew who wrote (32352)9/2/2017 9:28:13 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361808
 
>>How do you feel about limiting unskilled immigrants and H-1B visas so that our excess labor gets sopped up?<<


During ‘Made in America Week,’ President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club applies to hire 70 foreign workers



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/20/during-made-in-america-week-president-trumps-mar-a-lago-club-applies-to-hire-70-foreign-workers/?utm_term=.e6cd41804362



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..Earlier this week, the Trump administration said it would expand the number of H-2B visas available nationwide this year by 15,000, using power granted by Congress to go beyond the statutory cap of 66,000 per year. This category of visas are given to foreign workers filling temporary jobs outside the agriculture industry, in fields like construction, fishing and tourism...



To: Katelew who wrote (32352)9/3/2017 10:29:38 AM
From: zzpat  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 361808
 
Calling someone a Trump voter is an insult and I hope you didn't mean it that way.

I notice that Trump is using H-1B visas to hire new workers.

The problem isn't immigration. It's the failure of capitalism to create good paying jobs. Investing is basically taking money away from people who made it. CEOs choose to give most of the money to investors and not workers.