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Report: Trump Modeling Agency Broke U.S. Immigration Laws

HeadlineAug 31, 2016

Meanwhile, a new Mother Jones investigation reveals Trump’s modeling agency, Trump Model Management, may have broken immigration laws by profiting off foreign models who did not have U.S. work visas. The article is based on interviews with three models who worked with Trump’s agency. Two of the models say Trump’s agency never attempted to secure them valid U.S. work visas, even while the women performed modeling jobs for Trump. Canadian model Rachel Blais, who appeared on Trump’s TV show “The Apprentice” while she did not have a valid U.S. work visa, said, “It is like modern-day slavery.” There have also been questions about whether Trump’s wife, Slovenian model Melania Trump, may have violated U.S. immigration laws during her modeling gigs in New York in the mid-1990s.

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