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Our president* wants more immigrants from Poland. (Original Post) cyclonefence Sep 2018 OP
Also, they are white; and Poland isn't one of those sh*thole countries The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #1
Poland? mwooldri Sep 2018 #2
Well he did stiff a bunch of Polish laborers. irisblue Sep 2018 #3
Great response TEB Sep 2018 #5
Already, Chicago is said to have the world's second largest Polish population after Warsaw. greatauntoftriplets Sep 2018 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)
1. Also, they are white; and Poland isn't one of those sh*thole countries
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 10:28 AM
Sep 2018

which are mostly in Africa where most people aren't white. He wanted more Norwegians, too. I don't see that happening.

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
2. Poland?
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 10:37 AM
Sep 2018

Ask the Brexiteers as to what they think about the influx of Poles. A lot of Polish people coming to the UK, doing work the Brits don't want to do... And people voted to keep them out.

irisblue

(32,981 posts)
3. Well he did stiff a bunch of Polish laborers.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 10:43 AM
Sep 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/nyregion/trump-tower-illegal-immigrant-workers-union-settlement.html

"In 1980, under pressure to begin construction on what would become his signature project, Donald J. Trump employed a crew of 200 undocumented Polish workers who worked in 12-hour shifts, without gloves, hard hats or masks, to demolish the Bonwit Teller building on Fifth Avenue, where the 58-story, golden-hued Trump Tower now stands.

The workers were paid as little as $4 an hour for their dangerous labor, less than half the union wage, if they got paid at all."
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At the time of the settlement, the court papers note, “this case has been litigated for 15 years and has already required three rounds of discovery, extensive motion practice, a 16-day trial and two appeals.”

Trump Tower was Mr. Trump’s second solo project after leaving his father’s real estate company, which developed working- and middle-class housing in Queens and Brooklyn. But before he could build a glassy condominium tower on what he considered to be a “Tiffany” of locations, Fifth Avenue and 56th Street, Mr. Trump had to demolish a venerable department store, the 12-story Bonwit Teller building."


more at article. He got used to using people as undocumented day labor & apparently likes it.


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