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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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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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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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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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First Shock, Then Fear As San Bernardino Shooters Opened Fire
“There’s a shooting going on outside. Don’t tell mom.”
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At Least 14 Victims Dead After Shooting In San Bernardino; Two Suspects Also Killed
An event or holiday party was underway at the California social services center when the shooting broke out. BuzzFeed News reporters Adolfo Flores and Ken Bensinger are reporting from San Bernardino. Live updates here.
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FBI Ends Search Of Lake Near Scene Of San Bernardino Terror Attack
Federal investigators on Monday said they believe the two San Bernardino shooters had been radicalized, but don’t know who may have been behind the drift towards extremism or how it occurred.
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The Jobs No Americans Can Get
A BuzzFeed News Investigation.
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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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“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.
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Gary Owen Wants To Be More Than Black America’s Favorite White Comedian
A household name to black audiences and completely unknown to white audiences, this blond, blue-eyed stand-up from Ohio has a career wholly unlike that of anyone before him. But will his attempts to bridge the gap cost him all that he’s built?
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Argentina’s President Accused By Prosecutor Of Covering Up Blame For Terror Attack
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was accused by a federal prosecutor of hiding Iran’s role in a 1994 Buenos Aires terror attack that killed 85 people.
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Plenty Of Innuendo, But No Hard Evidence Of New Clinton Sex Scandal
Much-discussed documents in Jeffrey Epstein affair don’t live up to the hype.
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Flouting Law, Uber Suspends Drivers For Properly Registering Cars
The ride-hailing giant has suspended some drivers in California who registered cars for commercial use. But the DMV says that only cars with commercial registrations may carry passengers for hire in the state.
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Argentina Blames Rogue Intelligence Agents In Shooting Death Of Prosecutor
Alberto Nisman was set to reveal details about his years-long investigation into a 1994 terror attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Investigators initially said he killed himself, but on Thursday, the government blamed rogue intelligence agents for the killing, adding to an already shocking mystery.
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Uber Advises Drivers To Buy Insurance That Leaves Them Uncovered
At a presentation for would-be Uber drivers attended by BuzzFeed News, a company representative advised getting less-expensive “personal” insurance that can leave drivers uncovered and in some cases lead them to incorrectly register their cars in violation of the law.
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Nation’s Largest Subprime Auto Dealer Hit With $8 Million Fine
The country’s top consumer cop finds that DriveTime harassed customers, reported inaccurate information to credit bureaus, and refused to fix errors.
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