Donald Trump files for 78 visas so immigrants can work at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort

Trump companies have filed for more that 1,000 such visas since 2000 despite candidate's push for 'native hires'
By Mary Papenfuss
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump makes a point on the stump.John Moore/ Getty Images


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is dead-set against immigrants "stealing" jobs from American-born workers — except at his own businesses. The Trump Organisation is thought to have recently filed documents seeking 78 visas so immigrants work at his Florida golf resorts.

The paperwork, filed in early July, reportedly seeks H-2B visas for non-agricultural low-skilled workers such as housekeepers, cooks and restaurant servers at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach and the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida.
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Ironically, the vast majority of workers in the US on H-2B visas and the agriculture work version, H-2A, are young Mexican men, the same group Trump has branded as "criminals and rapists."

It's hardly the first time Trump has hired an immigrant workforce. A number of his construction projects have been built using foreign labour.

A cornerstone of Trump's campaign has been his call to put America "back to work" and to shut out immigrants. Last year he told CNN he would block new visas forcing employers to hire "native workers."

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted the candidate in his speech at the Democratic National Convention for his "hypocrisy."

Donald Trump "says he wants to put Americans back to work, but he games the US visa system so he can hire temporary foreign workers at low wages," Bloomberg said.

As part of the application for the "guest worker" visas at the golf resorts, employers must make a case for why they are necessary. The Trump company application claims there are no American-born residents willing to take the work.

But a Florida employment agency official told BuzzFeed that he had "hundreds" of eager workers qualified to take the jobs. An agency database has the names of 1,327 Palm Beach County residents alone looking for such positions.

Since 2010, nearly 300 US residents applied or were referred for jobs at Mar-A-Lago, but only 17 were hired, the New York Times reported early this year. In that same period, Mar-A-Lago sought more than 500 visas for foreign workers.

The US Labor Department approved 685 H-2B visas for the Mar-A-Lago Club between 2008 and 2015, according to Polifact. Reuters reported in 2015 that Trump companies had sought to bring in 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas since 2000.

Before filing for the recent 78 visas, Trump organizations had already obtained 149 guest work visas just since Trump began his campaign, according to Buzzfeed.

Hillary Clinton calls election a 'moment of reckoning' in historic speech

Nation's first-ever major party female candidate for president hails falling barriers and calls Trump dangerous.
By Mary Papenfuss

Hillary Clinton formally accepts Democratic nomination for President Reuters


A beaming Hillary Clinton took to the podium on 28 July at the Democratic National Convention to accept her historic nomination as the first major party female candidate for president in American history. She delivered a positive, upbeat message that kept the crowd on its feet, but also warned that the nation is facing a "moment of reckoning."

Clinton also delivered her most stinging attack yet on GOP presidential rival Donald Trump. "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man who we can trust with nuclear weapons," Clinton warned. She noted that during the Cuban Missile Crisis then-president John F Kennedy didn't fear the start of a nuclear war by "big men with self-control and restraint," but by "little men moved by fear and pride."
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In a nod to Bernie Sanders' supporters, she thanked her primary election rival and his backers for putting "economic and social justice issues front and centre where they belong."

Clinton was introduced by her daughter Chelsea, who hailed her mother as a role model and political warrior with a "fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love," and who relishes a battle for health care and reading to granddaughter, Charlotte.

Chelsea triggered one of the biggest roars of the night when she said her mother recognises that "women's rights ... and LGBT rights are human rights."

She then introduced her mother: "Ladies and gentlemen, my mother, my hero, the next president of the United States." Clinton, clad all in white, strode across the stage for several moments, smiling and nodding, and pointing to people in the crowd. She appeared emotional initially as she stood at the podium before effusively thanking the crowd.

At one point she acknowledged her historic nomination as a "milestone in our nation's march towards a more perfect union.

"When any barrier falls for anyone in America," she declared, "it clears the way for everyone. "When there are no ceilings, the sky's the limit."

But she also sounded an alarm that the nation faces a "moment of reckoning" now.

"Bonds of trust and respect are fraying. And just as with our founders there are no guarantees. It truly is up to us. We have to decide whether we're going to work together so we can all rise together," she said.

"Our country's motto is e pluribus unum — out of many we are one. Will we stay true to that motto?" Clinton asked in a clear dig at Trump.

She lashed out at Trump as one who "wants to divide us from each other and from the rest of the world. He is betting that the perils of today's world that will blind us to its unlimited promise. He's taken the Republican Party a long way, from Morning in America to Midnight in America. He wants us to fear the future and fear each other."

She quoted former president Franklin D Roosevelt's famous saying: "The only thing to fear is fear itself."

Clinton added: "We are clear-eyed about what our country is up against, but we are not afraid. We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have. We will not build a wall. Instead, we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good paying job can get one."

And — just like President Obama in his speech the night before — Clinton also criticised Trump's boast that he alone can fix the nation's problems. One-time first daughter Chelsea Clinton introduces 'my mother, my hero, the next president of the United States."Reuters/Mike Segar

"Really?" she asked. "Isn't he forgetting troops on the front lines, police officers and fire fighters who run toward danger, doctors and nurses who care for us, teachers who change lives ... He's forgetting every last one of us.

"Americans don't say, 'I alone can fix it,' we say, 'We'll fix it together,'" she said.

"Stronger together is not just a lesson from our history. It's not just a slogan for our campaign. It's a guiding principle for the country we've always been and the future we're going to build," she said.

It means a "country where the economy works for everyone, not just those at the top. Where you can get a good job and send your kids to a good school, no matter what zip code you live in ... [where] love trumps hate."

Clinton also condemned Trump for his hypocrisy, for demanding that jobs be brought back to America for Americans, when much of his businesses rely on products, from clothing to furniture, that he has manufactured overseas.

"Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again — making he could start by actually making things in America again," she quipped to laughter in the hall.

Clinton acknowledged frustration in the nation that much needs to be done. She vowed that as president her "primary mission" will be to "create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States."

She also vowed to "reform" the criminal justice system to "rebuild trust," and that she would "not be in the pocket of the gun lobby."

She called for new justices on a Supreme Court that would overturn the Citizens United decision that brought a flood of cash into politics, and vowed that "Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again."

She noted, laughing, that she "believes in science," in another dig at Trump. "I believe that climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs," Clinton said.

She promised to focus on making the nation safe relying on her experience as well as "smarts, judgment, cool resolve, and the precise and strategic application of power."

Clinton added: "Anyone reading the news can see the threats and turbulence we face from Baghdad and Kabul, to Nice and Paris and Brussels, to San Bernardino and Orlando. We're dealing with determined enemies that must be defeated. No wonder people are anxious and looking for reassurance — looking for steady leadership."

She concluded: "We begin a new chapter tonight. Yes, the world is watching what we do. Yes, America's destiny is ours to choose.

"So let's be stronger together, my fellow Americans. Let's look to the future with courage and confidence. Let's build a better tomorrow for our beloved children and our beloved country.

"When we do, America will be greater than ever." 

HATIMAYE BILIONEA MO AFUNGUKA RASMI UWEKEZAJI WAKE NDANI YA SIMBA

Kuelekea mkutano mkuu wa Simba unaotaraji kufanyika Jumapili ya Julai, 31, shabiki na mkeleketwa wa Simba ambaye ni Mkurugenzi Mtendaji na Rais wa Makampuni ya Mohammed Enterprises (MeTL Group), Mohammed Dewji amezungumza mipango yake aliyopanga kuifanyia Simba kama akipata nafasi ya kununua hisa asilimia 51 za klabu hiyo.


MO amesema kuwa mipango yake ni kuwekeza Bilioni 20 na amepanga bajeti ya klabu hiyo kwa mwaka iwe Bilioni 5.5, kiasi ambacho anaamini kuwa kitaweza kubadili mwelekeo wa Simba kutoka ilivyo sasa na kurudisha zama zake za kutwaa mataji ya ndani na kufika hatua nzuri kimataifa.


MO alisema amefikia uamuzi wa kutaka kununua hisa katika klabu ya Simba kutokana na mapenzi aliyonayo katika klabu hiyo na hana nia yoyote ya kiabiashara na klabu hiyo kwani tayari ana biashara anazofanya ambazo zinamuingizia pesa nyingi hivyo jambo hilo ni kuona timu aliyo na mapenzi nayo ikifanikiwa.


“Nipo tayari kuwekeza Bilioni 20 kama watanipa nafasi lakini tukubaliane kuwa hakuna mtu atagusa pesa hizo pesa, tutauza bondi na kwa kila mwaka tutaingiza Bilioni 3.5 na tutatengeneza mapato ya Bilioni 2 kila mwaka ukijumlisha ni Bilioni 5.5 ambayo itakuwa ni bajeti ya mwaka,


“Inaniuma sana kuona klabu imekuja juzi tu leo inatuzidi mafanikio lakini kama Yanga na Azam bajeti zao kwa mwaka ni Bilioni 2.5 hadi Bilioni 3, sisi tukiwa na bajeti ya Bilioni 5.5 tutakuwa tumewazidi na tutaleta wachezaji wazuri na kocha mzuri,” alisema na kuongeza.


“Dhamira yangu sio kupata Simba kibiashara, mimi Mungu kanijalia nina pesa nina biashara ziadi ya 100, tumeajiri wafanyakazi wanafika 28,000 , jambo ninalolitaka Simba ni kuwekeza, tubadili mfumo, tushinde mataji na sio Tanzania pekee shabaha yangu ni kushinda mataji ya Afrika”


Aidha MO alisema kuwa kama akipata nafasi atazungumza na viongozi wa Simba ili kila mwanachama wa klabu wa muda mrefu apatiwe hisa bure kutokana na kazi kubwa ambayo wameifanya katika klabu hiyo.


“Nitazungumza na viongozi wa klabu tuone jinsi ambavyo tunaweza kuwapa bure wanachama wa klabu ambao wamekuwa na timu kwa muda mrefu, wameshatoka jasho sana na Simba hivyo tutawapa hisa za timu bure,” alisema MO.


Hata hivyo MO aliongeza kuwa yupo tayari kwa lolote kama katika mkutano mkuu wa Jumapili watamnyima nafasi ya kuwekeza katika klabu ya Simba na kueleza kuwa anachoamini kwa sasa Simba haiitaji mdhamini bali Simba inahitaji mwekezaji.


“Mimi wakininyima kwa moyo mweupe kabisa sina tatizo na hili jambo hata likifanikiwa halitakamilika kesho linaweza kuchukua muda sababu kuna mambo ya kufanyiwa marekebisho na kusaini mikataba ila kama nikiona mambo yanakwenda sawa kwa hicho kipindi nitaangalia jinsi gani nitaisaidia Simba sababu nina mapenzi nayo,” aliongeza MO.

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RC URGES DEDs and DASs TO PROVIDE BETTER SERVICES TO CITIZENS

IRINGA Regional Commissioner Amina Masenza has urged District Executive Directors (DEDs) and District Administrative Secretaries (DASs) of the Local Government Authority of Iringa Region to be a role model in providing better services to citizens. 

She said DEDs and DASs need to be quick to make decisions beneficial to the citizens and should refrain the business as usual attitude of giving promises of come today, come tomorrow, next week, a month may not be entertained.

The Office of Iringa Region Commissioner on Thursday last week organized a meeting which involved the Directors of the Authority of Local Government and Administrative Secretaries of the districts of Iringa Region.

They are those appointed recently by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania John Pombe Magufuli aimed at reminding their responsibilities of every day in accordance with the laws, regulations and procedures governing the country Local Government Authority and the Office of the District Commissioners.

Masenza said DEDs and DASs must cooperate with all stakeholders present in their councils and provide better services to citizens. 

“Be catalyst for change to employees who are still working as usual, “she said.

In the working meeting of the Iringa Regional Commissioner, Amina Juma Masenza remained them that the government of Magufuli has a real commitment to provide better services to citizens. 

“I urge you to be a role model in providing better services to citizens. You will need to be quick to make decisions beneficial to the citizens. Promises like come today, come tomorrow and then week, a month may not be accepted,” she emphasized.

Iringa Regional Commissioner gave the following instructions:

• Prosecute legal action that resulted in the existence of ghost workers. 
• Visit all schools and be satisfied with the finalization of a number of desks required. 
• Set treaties with school heads, VEO, WEO and Divisional Officers on the handling of the desks. 
• Complete construction of classrooms, laboratories, better toilets, and administration blocks and teachers houses. 
• Ensure Local villages hold meetings in accordance with the law. 
• Manage the government's commitment to giving free education and inform citizens of their duties and responsibilities of the government. 
• Manage the funds provided by the government to finance free education to all those who will use the money as opposed to procedures promptly. 
• Strategically eliminate hunger in the region. 
• Allocate areas of youth for work and encouraging young people to work. 
• Citizens should be encouraged to eat combination food and consider the appropriate feeding of breast milk for a child to deal with the problem of nutrition. 
• Each citizen joining the Community Health Fund (CHF) 
• Citizens continue to participate in the sanitation exercise of keeping the environment clean. 
• Manage the system of revenue collection of the government using electronic machines. 
• Council to design new revenue sources. 
• Special day be set aside each week to listen to concerns of citizens. 
• Strengthening governance and the rule of law. 
• Manage the implementation of the CCM election manifesto.

Rais Magufuli Atoa ONYO Kali...

....."Mimi sijaribiwi, wasije kunijaribu. Atakayeleta vurugu atashughulikiwa bila huruma!



Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania Dkt. John Pombe Magufuli leo tarehe 29 Julai, 2016 ameanza ziara ya siku nne katika mikoa ya Singida, Tabora, Shinyanga na Geita akitokea mkoani Dodoma, ambapo amezungumza na wananchi kwa lengo la kuwashukuru kwa kumpigia kura katika Uchaguzi Mkuu wa mwaka jana na kueleza juhudi zinazofanywa na serikali katika kutatua kero za wananchi na kuwaletea maendeleo.


Akiwa Mkoani Singida, Rais Magufuli aliyeongozana na mkewe Mama Janeth Magufuli amewasihi watanzania kufanya kazi kwa juhudi na kujiepusha na vitendo vya vurugu vinavyohamasishwa na baadhi ya wanasiasa huku akionya kuwa serikali yake haitamvumilia mtu yeyote ambaye atathubutu kuchochea vurugu ikiwemo maandamano kinyume cha sheria.


“Sitaki nchi hii iwe ya vurugu, watakaoleta vurugu mimi nitawashughulikia kikamilifu bila huruma, na wasije wakanijaribu, mimi ni tofauti sana na kama wapo watu wanaowatumia wakawaeleze vizuri, mimi sijaribiwi na wala sitajaribiwa.


“Wananchi hawa wana shida, na siasa nzuri ni wananchi washibe, siasa nzuri ni wananchi wetu wapate dawa” Amesema Rais Magufuli.


Kuhusu hatua mbalimbali zilizochukuliwa na Serikali yake ya awamu ya tano tangu aingie madarakani Rais Magufuli ametaja baadhi ya hatua hizo kuwa ni kufuta ada kwa shule za msingi na sekondari, kutoa mikopo kwa wanafunzi wa vyuo vikuu zaidi ya laki moja na kuongeza fedha za miradi ya maendeleo katika bajeti ya serikali kutoka asilimia 26 ya mwaka 2015/2016 hadi kufikia asilimia 40 katika bajeti ya mwaka huu 2016/2017.


Hatua nyingine ni kuondoa wafanyakazi hewa 12,500 katika orodha ya waliokuwa wanalipwa mshahara na serikali, kudhibiti upotevu wa mapato serikalini, kutenga shilingi Trilioni moja kwa ajili ya kuanza ujenzi wa Reli ya kati kwa kiwango cha kisasa yaani Standard gauge na pia akazungumzia hatua zilizochukuliwa dhidi ya wala rushwa na wanaojihusisha na ufisadi kwa kuunda mahakama ya mafisadi huku akiapa kuwa katika kipindi chake hakuna fisadi atakayeendelea kutamba.


Akiwa njiani Rais Magufuli amewasalimu wananchi wa Ikungi na baadaye amefanya mkutano wa hadhara Singida Mjini ambako amesisitiza kuwa serikali yake haiko tayari kumvumilia mtu yeyote atakayekwamisha utekelezaji wa Ahadi na Ilani ya Uchaguzi Mkuu wa Mwaka 2015.


Gerson Msigwa
Kaimu Mkurugenzi wa Mawasiliano, IKULU
Singida