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Panicked Trump Organization fires at least 18 undocumented workers from 5 golf clubs
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BEDMINSTER, NJ - JULY 15: ShanShan Feng of China makes a birdie putt on the 18th hole during the third round of the U.S. Women's Open Championship at Trump National Golf Club on July 15, 2017 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Matt Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Donald Trumps State of the Union speech tonight will probably feature a shit-ton of anti-immigrant lies and some sort of bravado about protecting U.S. workers. But back here in reality, the Trump Organization has been firing undocumented immigrant workers at his golf courses en masse, not because hes interested in following U.S. law, but because hes been caught. At least 18 workers have been canned from five locations since December, the Washington Post reports: The wave of dismissals raises questions about how widely the presidents company has relied on undocumented workers, even as he has denounced illegal immigration in fiery terms and demanded the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The answer is: a lot, and going back decades. These workers have cleaned and washed Trumps clothes, prepared food, and tended to the overall upkeep of several of Trumps clubs, some for years now. Some have said that supervisors knew full well that their documents were fake, and others that supervisors themselves helped them get the papers (investigators now have some of those fake green cards). At least one has made a serious charge of verbal and physical abuse by management. All, however, expose Trumps rank immigration hypocrisy.
While one of the former workers has been able to adjust her immigration status since her employment at Trumps Bedminster club, the others remain vulnerable to retaliation from the notoriously thin-skinned president. Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, who recently met with some of these brave workers, called on the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to protect them during any ongoing investigation of the Trump Organization.
Because the individuals I met with and others that may step forward appear to be potential witnesses to a crime and may provide the evidence necessary to conduct an appropriate investigation, Menendez wrote in a letter, I urge you to consider requesting or supporting authorization for them to remain in the U.S. during your necessary investigation. At least two of those workers, Victorina Morales and Sandra Diaz, will be face to face with their former employer on Tuesday, as guests at the State of the Union.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/5/1832507/-Panicked-Trump-Organization-fires-at-least-18-undocumented-workers-from-five-golf-clubs?detail=emaildkre
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Panicked Trump Organization fires at least 18 undocumented workers from 5 golf clubs (Original Post)
niyad
Feb 2019
OP
So, these are the jobs his base is dying to work for, do I have that right???
MagickMuffin
Feb 2019
#8
The republican role model cheats, lies about it, and now ditches & blames the workers
Achilleaze
Feb 2019
#9
Sneederbunk
(14,297 posts)1. How did they get through the fences around the clubs?
moondust
(20,002 posts)2. At least 25.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)3. So
when are the Trumps going to fire the managers who knowingly hired ineligible workers?
Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)6. They were probably ordered to hire them.
Last edited Thu Feb 7, 2019, 08:55 PM - Edit history (2)
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)10. Then fire those bosses
Or, see if the chain leads all the way to the top. Let anyone taking Trump's money be grilled on just how far up the fraud went.
malaise
(269,144 posts)4. This should be a huge story
but there are so many Con scandals
lame54
(35,313 posts)5. I hear Schiff is hiring
spanone
(135,857 posts)7. This should have been exposed during the campaign.
MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)8. So, these are the jobs his base is dying to work for, do I have that right???
After all that is one of his main message is it not?
These immigrants are taking away all the jobs that are suppose to be for white people. That's what I hear whenever he is spewing his outrage over immigration.
He's such a phony!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)9. The republican role model cheats, lies about it, and now ditches & blames the workers
republican Dirty Donny*'s skanky businesses hired these workers knowingly, scoffing at the law, paid them shit, lied to everyone about it, and like raving hypocrites they went political panicky condemning the "illegal brown workers invading America" while they themselves were making it happen.
Then when they get caught red handed, they ditch the workers and blame them.
How republican is that?
* aka republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief