Trump vineyard seeks Labor Department approval to hire foreign workers

[dixiegrrrrl]

Federal ethics experts for former Democratic and Republican administrations warned Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump is creating a major conflict of interest by allowing his Virginia vineyard to seek special temporary visas for foreign workers.

Trump, who is president of the Charlottesville vineyard that applied this month for H2 visas for six foreign workers, will soon run the U.S. government, which determines whether to grant those visas.

“This is a powerful example of why Donald Trump needs to make a definitive break, not just with his operational interests but his ownership interests, by appointing an independent trustee to liquidate all that,” said Norm Eisen, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution who was chief White House ethics lawyer for President Obama from 2009 to 2011.

He called the situation “a classic conflict of interest.”

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[CrispyQ]

1. Why isn't he hiring six American workers?

I have people in my family who voted for this asshole because he'll bring jobs back.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Pls. show them the entire article, which talks about ALL his immigrant hires.

Maybe that will help.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Interestingly the Daily Progress, the newspaper out of Charlottesville and

Albemarle County doesn't have any Letters to the Editor from residents, officeholders, or Chamber of Commerce -- or anything from the columnists -- that protest this application.

http://www.dailyprogress.com/opinion/

[pangaia]

3. Why aren't dems SCREAMING about this to the roof tops?????

They're just sitting at home eating turkey and watching christmas re-runs....

[HAB911]

4. Americans will starve before doing manual field labor, LMAO. n/t