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Despite his anti-immigration policy, the GOP candidate made money on the backs of undocumented workers.
For all Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigration, a Mother Jones report published Tuesday reveals the Republican candidate’s modeling agency, Trump Model Management, hired foreign models in the mid-2000s without acquiring the proper documentation. In a series of interviews with James West, former Trump Model Management talent Rachel Blais, along with two pseudonymous models, recounted their experiences working with Trump’s agency, detailing employment plagued by low wages, deplorable living conditions and fear of getting caught.
"We're herded into these small spaces," one model, referred to as Kate, told Mother Jones of the living conditions at the Trump models' apartment. "The apartment was like a sweatshop.” According to financial documents provided by Blais, the agency charged as much as $1,600 a month for a bunk in a six-person room in New York’s East Village in 2004.
"Most of the girls in the apartment that were not American didn't have a work visa," Blais told the magazine.
The women told Mother Jones they were coached by agency reps on how to pass immigration when coming to the United States. "When you're stuck at immigration, say that you're coming as a tourist. If they go through your luggage and they find your portfolio, tell them that you're going there to look for an agent,” Kate recalled.
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For all Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigration, a Mother Jones report published Tuesday reveals the Republican candidate’s modeling agency, Trump Model Management, hired foreign models in the mid-2000s without acquiring the proper documentation. In a series of interviews with James West, former Trump Model Management talent Rachel Blais, along with two pseudonymous models, recounted their experiences working with Trump’s agency, detailing employment plagued by low wages, deplorable living conditions and fear of getting caught.
"We're herded into these small spaces," one model, referred to as Kate, told Mother Jones of the living conditions at the Trump models' apartment. "The apartment was like a sweatshop.” According to financial documents provided by Blais, the agency charged as much as $1,600 a month for a bunk in a six-person room in New York’s East Village in 2004.
"Most of the girls in the apartment that were not American didn't have a work visa," Blais told the magazine.
The women told Mother Jones they were coached by agency reps on how to pass immigration when coming to the United States. "When you're stuck at immigration, say that you're coming as a tourist. If they go through your luggage and they find your portfolio, tell them that you're going there to look for an agent,” Kate recalled.
http://www.alternet.org/trump-skirt...iring-top-foreign-models#.V8aRDeVawQY.twitter
