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US Guest Worker Program Risks Human Trafficking, Says UN Official
A United Nations envoy said visa programs for short-term unskilled labor are of “of particular concern.”
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Trump May Bring In More Guest Workers
Trump himself has used the controversial program to bring in workers from other countries, and so have some of his appointees
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A Fifth Teen Beauty Queen Says Trump Visited Dressing Room
“The black curtains opened and in walks Mr. Trump smiling,” said the latest woman to come forward from the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant.
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Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing
“Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”
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“We Were All Naked” When Donald Trump Walked Through Beauty Queen Dressing Room
Trump: “I sort of get away with things like that.”
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Trump Beach Resort In Florida Seeks More Foreign Workers
Companies Donald Trump owns or that bear his name continue to apply for permission to import foreign workers for jobs at resorts and golf courses from New York to Florida — at least 247 since he launched his presidential campaign.
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Trump’s Florida Clubs Absent From Job Fairs To Hire U.S. Workers
More than 100 employers around Palm Beach County have signed on to participate in job fairs to hire local workers for resorts. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and Golf Club have not attended. Instead, the clubs have sought to import foreign workers on special visas
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Trump Seeks More Foreign Guest Workers For His Companies
The presidential candidate is seeking to bring in 78 more servers, housekeepers, and cooks for his Mar-a-Lago resort and nearby golf course. The controversial guest worker program allows employers to import foreign workers, but only when there are no Americans who want the jobs.
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Trump’s New York Golf Course Seeks Foreign Workers
Trump National Golf Course told the Department of Labor there just weren’t enough American servers to hire
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Trump And Women: Former Beauty Queens Speak
How Donald Trump sees women — and how they see him — has become central to his bid for the presidency. Now, former beauty pageant contestants describe what it was like to be around him when he owned Miss Universe and Miss USA.
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Employers Abuse Foreign Workers. U.S. Says, By All Means, Hire More.
Abusing foreign “guest workers,” stealing their wages, even threatening their lives: There is almost no workplace abuse so extreme that the U.S. government will not reward employers with the chance to do it again.
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Tennis World Reacts To Match-Fixing Exposé
BuzzFeed News published a yearlong investigation into match-fixing in tennis. Keep track of the response here.
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The Pied Piper Of North Carolina
Stan Eury turned an obscure bit of immigration law into a mammoth federal program — and a lucrative business empire, importing hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers for legal American jobs. Except that some of the jobs weren’t real jobs, and an untold number of those workers may never have returned to Mexico at all.
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These Three Americans Shared How It Feels To Lose A Job To Foreign Guest Workers
And one Mexican guest worker talks about how her dreams turned into a nightmare. Their stories are part of a larger BuzzFeed News investigation into how America’s guest worker program can harm both U.S. and foreign workers.
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Senators Spar Over Proposal To Increase Foreign Workers In The U.S.
Senators, including Bernie Sanders, are fighting a proposal that could expand by more than 130,000 the number of foreign workers brought into the U.S. while limiting protections for foreign and American workers.
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Trump Resort In Florida Relies On Foreign Guest Workers
Trump says it’s hard to find American workers for seasonal jobs in Palm Beach, but a local career center says it has “hundreds” of qualified candidates.
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The Jobs No Americans Can Get
A BuzzFeed News Investigation.
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“All You Americans Are Fired”
The H-2 guest worker program, which brought in 150,000 legal foreign workers last year, isn’t supposed to deprive any American of a job. But many businesses go to extraordinary lengths to deny jobs to U.S. workers so they can hire foreigners instead. A BuzzFeed News investigation.
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Members Of Congress Call For Reform Of Guest Worker Program
After a BuzzFeed News investigation into abuses in the H-2 program, several members of Congress decry problems and demand stronger protection for workers.
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The New American Slavery: Invited To The U.S., Foreign Workers Find A Nightmare
The H-2 visa program invites foreign workers to do some of the most menial labor in America. Then it leaves them at the mercy of their employers. Thousands of these workers have been abused — deprived of their fair pay, imprisoned, starved, beaten, raped, and threatened with deportation if they dare complain. And the government says it can do little to help. A BuzzFeed News investigation.
