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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's golf course employed undocumented workers -- then fired them amid showdown over border wall
OSSINING, N.Y They had spent years on the staff of Donald Trumps golf club, winning employee-of-the-month awards and receiving glowing letters of recommendation.
Some were trusted enough to hold the keys to Eric Trumps weekend home. They were experienced enough to know that when Donald Trump ordered chicken wings they were to serve him two orders on one plate.
But on Jan. 18, about a dozen employees at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y., were summoned, one by one, to talk with a human resources executive from Trump headquarters.
During the meetings, they were fired because they are undocumented immigrants, according to interviews with the workers and their attorney. The fired workers are from Latin America.
The sudden firings which were previously unreported follow last years revelations of undocumented labor at a Trump club in New Jersey, where employees were subsequently dismissed. The firings show Trumps business was relying on undocumented workers even as the president demanded a border wall to keep out such immigrants.
Trumps demand for border wall funding led to the government shutdown that ended Friday after nearly 35 days.
In Westchester County, workers were told Trumps company had just audited their immigration documents the same ones they had submitted years earlier and found them to be fake.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trumps-demand-for-a-border-wall-shut-down-the-government-at-the-same-time-his-company-was-firing-undocumented-workers/2019/01/26/8cf75d66-20c5-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?utm_term=.d9011cdaa88d&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1
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