President-elect Donald Trump made demonizing even legal immigrant guest workers, most notably Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, the centerpiece of his successful 2024 campaign.
CNN on Monday reported, however, that Trump's businesses have been hiring such workers in record numbers in the last year.
CNN political correspondent Sara Murray appeared on the network to break down what she's found about Trump's continued hiring of immigrant workers in recent years.
"In 2024, the Trump Organization businesses were approved to hire 209 foreign guest workers," she said. "This is... nearly double from the number a decade ago. It's the highest number for the Trump businesses we have for any year on record, according to government data."
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Murray went on to say that "these workers mostly come through" a program that "allows for hiring foreign workers when there aren't American workers who are able, willing, available to do this kind of temporary work."
She said that this tended to include "people like cooks, people like housekeepers."
Murray added that Trump allies like X CEO Elon Musk have also made use of employing foreign workers.
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