Trump’s Florida Clubs Absent From Job Fairs To Hire U.S. Workers
More than 100 employers around Palm Beach County have signed on to participate in job fairs to hire local workers for resorts. Trump's Mar-a-Lago and Golf Club have not attended. Instead, the clubs have sought to import foreign workers on special visas
Trump Seeks More Foreign Guest Workers For His Companies
The presidential candidate is seeking to bring in 78 more servers, housekeepers, and cooks for his Mar-a-Lago resort and nearby golf course. The controversial guest worker program allows employers to import foreign workers, but only when there are no Americans who want the jobs.
Trump’s New York Golf Course Seeks Foreign Workers
Trump National Golf Course told the Department of Labor there just weren’t enough American servers to hire
Trump And Women: Former Beauty Queens Speak
How Donald Trump sees women — and how they see him — has become central to his bid for the presidency. Now, former beauty pageant contestants describe what it was like to be around him when he owned Miss Universe and Miss USA.
Employers Abuse Foreign Workers. U.S. Says, By All Means, Hire More.
Abusing foreign “guest workers,” stealing their wages, even threatening their lives: There is almost no workplace abuse so extreme that the U.S. government will not reward employers with the chance to do it again.
Tennis World Reacts To Match-Fixing Exposé
BuzzFeed News published a yearlong investigation into match-fixing in tennis. Keep track of the response here.
The Pied Piper Of North Carolina
Stan Eury turned an obscure bit of immigration law into a mammoth federal program — and a lucrative business empire, importing hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers for legal American jobs. Except that some of the jobs weren’t real jobs, and an untold number of those workers may never have returned to Mexico at all.
These Three Americans Shared How It Feels To Lose A Job To Foreign Guest Workers
And one Mexican guest worker talks about how her dreams turned into a nightmare. Their stories are part of a larger BuzzFeed News investigation into how America's guest worker program can harm both U.S. and foreign workers.
The Jobs No Americans Can Get
A BuzzFeed News Investigation.
Senators Spar Over Proposal To Increase Foreign Workers In The U.S.
Senators, including Bernie Sanders, are fighting a proposal that could expand by more than 130,000 the number of foreign workers brought into the U.S. while limiting protections for foreign and American workers.
Trump Resort In Florida Relies On Foreign Guest Workers
Trump says it’s hard to find American workers for seasonal jobs in Palm Beach, but a local career center says it has “hundreds” of qualified candidates.
"All You Americans Are Fired"
The H-2 guest worker program, which brought in 150,000 legal foreign workers last year, isn't supposed to deprive any American of a job. But many businesses go to extraordinary lengths to deny jobs to U.S. workers so they can hire foreigners instead. A BuzzFeed News investigation.
Members Of Congress Call For Reform Of Guest Worker Program
After a BuzzFeed News investigation into abuses in the H-2 program, several members of Congress decry problems and demand stronger protection for workers.
The New American Slavery: Invited To The U.S., Foreign Workers Find A Nightmare
The H-2 visa program invites foreign workers to do some of the most menial labor in America. Then it leaves them at the mercy of their employers. Thousands of these workers have been abused — deprived of their fair pay, imprisoned, starved, beaten, raped, and threatened with deportation if they dare complain. And the government says it can do little to help. A BuzzFeed News investigation.
Barbara Boxer And The Myth Of The "Year Of The Women"
In 1992, the election of six women to the Senate seemed to herald a new era of gender equality. Twenty-two years later, it's clear we still have a long way to go.
8 Memorable Investigations We Published This Year
A con man who snagged an Ebola cleanup contract and a pig farmer who turned to arms dealing. A warehouse empire and laws that imprison battered women. A recluse at the heart of a Hollywood scandal and a coal miner dead from black lung. The year in Buzzfeed News investigations.
California Unveils New Ebola Quarantine Policy As Issue Turns Political
The state's new Ebola policy came as a Stanford doctor was quarantined, and President Obama took a veiled shot at governors for "hiding under the covers."
Maine Nurse Says Quarantine Fight Is About "Much More Than Myself"
The nurse at the center of the controversy over an Ebola quarantine, told reporters she intends to fight the state of Maine over efforts to keep her isolated.
Behind A Huge Bribe, A Tale Of Pollution, Profit, And Economic Transformation
Our get-it-now economy depends on enormous, futuristic warehouses — but the people who live in their shadows face lung-stunting pollution and, in some cases, political corruption.
See How Our Shopping Endangers Children And Alters The Landscape
You can click to order almost anything — but not without a human and environmental cost. This narrated slideshow takes you to the humungous, futuristic warehouses that handle our stuff, and to the people who live with the pollution they generate. Part of a BuzzFeed News investigation.
Southern California Air Is Cleaner, But Still Plenty Dirty
The good news: Southern Californians are less likely to get cancer from toxic air than they were 10 years ago. But the rest of the data from a big new air quality report isn't so clear.
Former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Owned “Ugly,” “Dirty” Eyesore, Infuriating Neighbors
Villaraigosa says he didn’t know of code violations and would have fixed problems if he did. "Looks like shit," neighbor says.
ACLU And Immigrant Rights Groups Accuse Border Patrol Of “Widespread” Child Abuse
Children and teenagers were kicked, yelled at, forced to drink from toilets, and denied food and medical care, according to a complaint filed today.
Exclusive: Immigrant Minors Alleged Mistreatment By U.S. Border Officials
Documents obtained by BuzzFeed contain allegations that immigration officials physically mistreated or threatened some unaccompanied minors caught crossing the border. The reports do not say if the allegations were substantiated.
Obama Calls Surge In Unaccompanied Children Crossing U.S. Border "Urgent Humanitarian Situation"
President says FEMA will coordinate response. Advocates say children are fleeing violence and poverty in Central America.