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dalton99a

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Fri Aug 9, 2019, 12:03 PM Aug 2019

How a Trump construction crew has relied on immigrants without legal status (WP)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/if-youre-a-good-worker-papers-dont-matter-how-a-trump-construction-crew-has-relied-on-immigrants-without-legal-status/2019/08/09/cf59014a-b3ab-11e9-8e94-71a35969e4d8_story.html

‘If you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter’: How a Trump construction crew has relied on immigrants without legal status
By Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold | August 9 at 10:03 AM


A Trump-owned construction company that has employed undocumented immigrants did work at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

OSSINING, N.Y. — For nearly two decades, the Trump Organization has relied on a roving crew of Latin American employees to build fountains and waterfalls, sidewalks and rock walls at the company’s winery and its golf courses from New York to Florida.

Other employees at Trump clubs were so impressed by the laborers — who did strenuous work with heavy stone — that they nicknamed them “Los Picapiedras,” Spanish for “the Flintstones.”

For years, their ranks have included workers who entered the United States illegally, according to two former members of the crew. Another employee, still with the company, said that remains true today.

President Trump “doesn’t want undocumented people in the country,” said one worker, Jorge Castro, a 55-year-old immigrant from Ecuador without legal status who left the company in April after nine years. “But at his properties, he still has them.”



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How a Trump construction crew has relied on immigrants without legal status (WP) (Original Post) dalton99a Aug 2019 OP
He's quite the hypocrite isn't he? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2019 #1
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