Trump vows to ‘hire American.’ His businesses keep hiring foreign guest workers
CNNCNN — President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to do everything in his power to benefit American workers. Despite that pledge, Trump’s own businesses sought to hire more foreign guest workers this year than any other year on record, according to a CNN review of government labor data. Just this year, Trump’s businesses received approval from the US government to hire 209 foreign workers, nearly double the number of such laborers his companies received permission to hire about a decade ago. Subsidiaries of companies run by Trump’s pick for commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, as well as another run by his pick for Social Security Administration commissioner, Frank Bisignano, have also received approval to hire foreign guest workers this year. While major overhauls of the nation’s current guest worker programs would require an act from Congress, the future Trump administration could take tougher stances on various forms of authorized and unauthorized immigration, which East said could prove “immensely harmful” for various US businesses.
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