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Demonizing immigrants played a key role in Donald Trumps campaign for the presidency, just as cracking down on illegal border crossings and whipping the base into a frenzy over a so-called migrant invasion has been a regular feature of his time in office and reelection efforts. But undocumented immigrants have also served another, lesser known but nevertheless vital function in the presidents life: providing cheap labor at his businesses. And not just, like, in years past, or in the first few months of his presidency, but as ofwhats that now?today. Yes, its a tough job to foam at the mouth daily about people entering the country without going through the proper channels first, use it to justify separating families and sending people back to nations theyve never knownall the while relying on them to keep your golf clubs runningbut somebodys got to do it!
The Washington Post reports that the Trump Organization currently employs a roving crew of Latin American employees to perform masonry and maintenance work at his winery and various golf clubs around the country. For almost two decades, the group has been comprised of workers who came into the US illegallythe penalty for which the president seemingly believes should be deathaccording to two former crew members. Another one, who still works for Trump, told reporters Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold that remains the case today. President Trump doesnt want undocumented people in the country, said Jorge Castro, an Ecuadorian immigrant without legal status who left the company last spring after nine years. But at his properties, he still has them. He added: If youre a good worker, papers dont matter.
Castro said he worked on seven Trump properties, most recently Trumps golf club in Northern Virginia. He provided The Washington Post with several years of his pay stubs from Trumps construction company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, as well as photos of him and his colleagues on Trump courses and text messages he exchanged with his boss, including one in January dispatching him to Bedminster, Trumps New Jersey golf course.
Another immigrant who worked for the Trump construction crew, Edmundo Morocho, said he was told by a Trump supervisor to buy fake identity documents on a New York street corner. He said he once hid in the woods of a Trump golf course to avoid being seen by visiting labor union officials.
Last January, Eric Trump, who took over the day-to-day business with his brother, Don Jr., said that the Trump Organization was making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment, and that any such individuals would be fired immediately. He also claimed that the company was implementing E-Verify, a program that lets employers check the immigration status of new hires as soon as possible, thoughand please, find something to brace yourself against lest the shock of what youre about to hear knock you flat on your backnothing changed on the Trump construction crew, according to current and former employees.
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JDC
(10,130 posts)of those rounded up. They are not above "hiring" from this captive pool of labor. Everything is a squeeze for trump and his crew of shit heels.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)But if you have ever been working late in any American Fortune 500 company, you would know that the crew that cleans offices are pretty much all undocumented immigrants. They work hard, accept lower wages and keep their mouths shut. It is a sad situation, but omni-present. Companies claim that they hired a contractor when caught and that they were told that every cleaning person had legal papers.