DiMare, who voted for Trump, has 85 guest workers from Mexico plucking plump tomatoes at his family’s fields near Homestead, south of Miami on the edge of the Everglades. He brought them into the US with H-2A temporary farmworker visas, used by about a third of crop workers in the US. They’re paid a lot more than undocumented workers typically earn, and labor makes up roughly 40% of a tomato grower’s costs. But at least he’s secured a dependable, legal workforce.
Donald Trump has a history of hiring people that are illegally here.
Donald Trump quietly paid $1.4 million in 1998 to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged he stiffed a union pension fund by employing undocumented Polish laborers to demolish a department store to make way for Trump Tower.
The amount became public this week after a judge released previously sealed settlement documents in response to a motion filed by Time Inc. and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in 2016.
Most Republicans are good at wanting to remove people who are here illegally, but for the ones they are hiring. Many other Republicans get temporary workers by using the federal government to bring cheap labor from other countries via the different visas allowed by the federal government.
Democrats should insist that all types of work visas either be eliminated or significantly reduced to help raise the pay for American workers.
But I don’t expect Democrats to do that because too many are beholding to the people who donate to their campaigns. No matter who wins, the American Worker gets fucked.