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babylonsister

(171,035 posts)
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 04:31 PM Aug 2019

CBP Chief Forced To Explain Why ICE Raids Haven't Targeted Trump's Companies

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CBP Chief Forced To Explain Why ICE Raids Haven’t Targeted Trump’s Companies
AP
By Cristina Cabrera
August 11, 2019 4:13 pm


Acting U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Mark Morgan on Sunday had to explain why sweeping immigration raids haven’t affected President Donald Trump’s companies despite multiple reports of those companies hiring undocumented immigrants.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that even as Trump cracks down on immigration through harsh measures, Trump Organization itself currently has undocumented immigrants working on its construction sites.

CNN’s “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper pointed out to Morgan that despite immigration agencies’ major increases in raids, including the ones in Mississippi last week that led to a record 680 arrests, there’ve been “zero raids” at Trump’s businesses.

“It seems like you guys are turning a blind eye to this crime being committed by the President’s own companies,” Tapper told Morgan, who recently served as the head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency before he was tapped as acting CBP commissioner in July.

Morgan said he’s “never known anybody in law enforcement to turn a blind eye to someone that’s committing a crime.”


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Watch the interview below:


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CBP Chief Forced To Explain Why ICE Raids Haven't Targeted Trump's Companies (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2019 OP
kick Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #1
Dump has claimed he doesn't know about it. moondust Aug 2019 #2
TOTAL BULL FUCKING SHIT answer!!!! Fucking douchebag along with Trump! nt Quixote1818 Aug 2019 #3
some people are above the law. I hope it changes. mucifer Aug 2019 #4
What punishment do the companies get for violating the law? IronLionZion Aug 2019 #5
The thing is he never answered the question. George II Aug 2019 #6
TrumPutin bought Chinese aluminum, then imposed tariffs Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #7
We've got a news flash for Jake Tapper..... KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2019 #8
This KentuckyWoman Aug 2019 #9
And you are a FUCKING LIAR. nt Ferrets are Cool Aug 2019 #10
My bullshit meter just PEGGED. trof Aug 2019 #11
Watch what a slick, slimy, sleazy worm he is. Full interview here: trof Aug 2019 #12
K&R UTUSN Aug 2019 #13

moondust

(19,960 posts)
2. Dump has claimed he doesn't know about it.
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 05:02 PM
Aug 2019

He knows. He goes to those clubs and golfs and sits around eating and drinking with toadies -- surrounded by kitchen staff and servers who are likely speaking Spanish much of the time.

I would bet that Dump is the one who ordered the managers to find ways to get fake documents for the "illegals" because he has a lot more leverage over workers who don't have legal rights.

IronLionZion

(45,380 posts)
5. What punishment do the companies get for violating the law?
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 05:49 PM
Aug 2019

Why not?

It seems like the people working there get punished but not the wealthy executives

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
8. We've got a news flash for Jake Tapper.....
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 06:53 PM
Aug 2019

If all the undocumented workers were removed from America tomorrow, most of the nation would come to a slow crawl within a few months. And, it will cause inflation.

Major construction labor work crews, plant maintenance crews, roofers, landscapers, hotel cleaning crews, restaurant workers, food processing plants, crop pickers....the list is very long.

Where's tRump's plan for replacing all these workers at low wages?

Let's see if any of his project managers get arrested like they did the chicken plant managers.....

KY....... .......

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