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justaprogressive

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Wed Jan 15, 2025, 10:53 AM Jan 15

The Billionaire Bros Do the Immigrant Worker Two-Step By Jim Hightower

One thing you can say about Donald Trump is that he's absolutely clear on his furious opposition to immigrants taking American jobs.

Except, of course, when the corporate honchos profiting from cheap immigrant labor are billionaire funders of Trump's campaigns — or, hello, when Trump himself is doing the hiring!

A work permit program called H-1B actually allows corporate giants to import foreigners to take U.S. jobs. Trump loudly denounced this in his first term, but that was pre-Elon. When gabillionaire Elon Musk became Donald's campaign sugar daddy last year, he turned out to be a mass abuser of the H-1B loophole — apparently even firing workers in his Tesla corporation and replacing them with cheaper foreign imports.

Yet, far from scolding his new best buddy, Trump did a full-body flip-flop. Now hailing H-1B as "a great program," he admits that he, too, has long used it, even when he was denouncing it as a shameful rip-off of American workers.

Trump's use of the foreign hire scheme is even chintzier than Musk's for he uses a companion H-2 loophole to import hundreds of low-paid foreigners to take jobs as cooks, waiters, housekeepers and farmworkers in his luxury resorts and hotels — including at Mar-a-Lago.


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