Trump just asked to hire foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago

As Trump rails against immigrants and falsely accuses them of stealing jobs from U.S. citizens, his private golf club in Florida is asking the government to approve a request to hire 40 more foreign workers, new filings show.

Records posted by the Department of Labor on Thursday reveal that Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club is seeking permission to hire 40 foreign workers to serve as waiters and waitresses for the winter season.

If approved, the workers would be employed from October through May at a rate of $12.68 an hour.

According to Buzzfeed, which first reported on the filings, Trump’s businesses “have sought to hire more than 480 foreign guest workers, including more than 240 for Mar-a-Lago” since the start of his presidential campaign in June 2015.

Trump has justified hiring foreign workers instead of U.S. citizens by claiming that it’s too hard to find Americans willing and able to fill the jobs.

This flatly contradicts Trump’s repeated assertions that immigration depresses U.S. wages and steals jobs from native-born Americans.

Thought it’s false, the claim that immigration hurts American workers has been cited by Trump and other White House officials like Stephen Miller as a primary rationale for cracking down on legal immigration.

Trump’s own “plan” for immigration reform has an entire section titled, “Put American Workers First,” in which he claims that our current immigration policies have “destroyed the middle class.”