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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Sat Aug 10, 2019, 02:46 PM Aug 2019

Happily employing undocumented workers

BY BESS LEVIN
AUGUST 9, 2019

... 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 illegally—the penalty for which the president seemingly believes should be death—according 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 “doesn’t 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 you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter” ...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers

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Happily employing undocumented workers (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2019 OP
"a good worker" onethatcares Aug 2019 #1

onethatcares

(16,168 posts)
1. "a good worker"
Sat Aug 10, 2019, 03:28 PM
Aug 2019

probably keeps his mouth shut, doesn't complain about hours or conditions, and takes the lowest pay possible.

but then again, I don't know what that would entail.

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