As President Donald Trump fends off an intraparty fight over visas, a trade group with Mar-a-Lago ties is pushing for seasonal worker visas to be expanded — and hoping to slip under the radar of MAGA ire over immigrants.
The Seasonal Employment Alliance, which represents agricultural and resort interests among others, has for some time pushed to raise the nation’s cap on a kind of seasonal work visa called H-2B. And now, it’s banking on Trump’s own extensive use of the visas, along with a few key hires, to help its case.
The organization, which plays up its ties to Trump and hosts its annual fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, promises “persistent grassroots advocacy” on its website. And it notes that Trump properties are prodigious users of these types of visas.
In fact, recent data from the Department of Labor showed that the Trump Organization requested 184 foreign worker visas through the so-called H-2B program for its various properties, a record number for the organization.
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