‘If you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter’: How a Trump construction crew has relied on immigrants without legal status

[Yssup Rider]

Send them back?

LOL!

Trump and his crime family continue to prove they're nothing but unethical demagogues.

Maybe he can put a couple of them newfangled "show" camps at Mar-A-Lago for the overflow from the Mississippi roundup?


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/if...tus/ar-AAFA81C

‘If you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter’: How a Trump construction crew has relied on immigrants without legal status
Josh Partlow, David Fahrenthold 6 hrs ago

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.

a person standing on a bridge: 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 A Trump-owned construction company that has employed undocumented immigrants did work at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va.
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.”

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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.”

Castro said he worked on seven Trump properties, most recently Trump’s golf club in Northern Virginia. He provided The Washington Post with several years of his pay stubs from Trump’s 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,” Trump’s 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.

a truck is parked in the dirt: Jorge Castro, an Ecuadoran immigrant, works at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., in October 2016.
© Courtesy of Jorge Castro/Courtesy Jorge Castro Jorge Castro, an Ecuadoran immigrant, works at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., in October 2016.
The hiring practices of the little-known Trump business unit are the latest example of the chasm between the president’s derisive rhetoric about immigrants and his company’s long-standing reliance on workers who cross the border illegally.

And it raises questions about how fully the Trump Organization has followed through on its pledge to more carefully scrutinize the legal status of its workers — even as the Trump administration launched a massive raid of undocumented immigrants, arresting about 680 people in Mississippi this week.

In January, Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons and a top Trump Organization executive, told The Post that the company was “making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment,” saying any such individuals would be immediately fired.

He also said the company was instituting E-Verify, a voluntary federal program that allows employers to check the immigration status of new hires, “on all of our properties as soon as possible.” And the company began auditing the legal status of its existing employees at its golf courses, firing at least 18.

But nothing changed on the Trump construction crew, according to current and former employees.

A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization said Mobile Payroll Construction is enrolled in E-Verify for any new hires. The company is still not listed in the public E-Verify database, which was last updated July 1.

The company did not directly respond to requests for comment about the legal status of the Mobile Construction workers, but said in a statement that “since this issue was first brought to our attention, we have taken diligent steps, including the use of E-Verify at all of our properties and companies."

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[Lapdog]

Good one, YR.

[Hotrod511]

the best part about all your hate Trump threads is how fucking pissed off you will be when he gets reelected in 2020

[Levianon17]

That has nothing to do with Trump. Contractors are Independent, they don't work directly for Trump they are contracted out for a particular job. The contractors hire the crews if they are illegal immigrants that's beyond Trump's control. Instead of trying to find negativity about Trump in every nook and cranny start worrying about the dummies on the left that are going to represent you and run against him.

[Hotrod511]

Originally Posted by Levianon17

That has nothing to do with Trump. Contractors are Independent, they don't work directly for Trump they are contracted out for a particular job. The contractors hire the crews if they are illegal immigrants that's beyond Trump's control. Instead of trying to find negativity about Trump in every nook and cranny start worrying about the dummies on the left that are going to represent you and run against him.

you asking YR something he is not capable of doing "think for himself"

[Lapdog]

Originally Posted by Levianon17

That has nothing to do with Trump. Contractors are Independent, they don't work directly for Trump they are contracted out for a particular job. The contractors hire the crews if they are illegal immigrants that's beyond Trump's control. Instead of trying to find negativity about Trump in every nook and cranny start worrying about the dummies on the left that are going to represent you and run against him.

Yeah, Levianon, keep telling yourself that. Uh huh. Yeah. Your hipocrisy shines like a beacon on the horizon.

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by Hotrod511

the best part about all your hate Trump threads is how fucking pissed off you will be when he gets reelected in 2020

Such stupid times we live in!

Thanks for confirming.

[bb1961]

Originally Posted by Lapdog

Yeah, Levianon, keep telling yourself that. Uh huh. Yeah. Your hipocrisy shines like a beacon on the horizon.

You're a contractor tell us how it works??

[bb1961]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Such stupid times we live in!

Thanks for confirming.

Thank you Mr. Gaffe...stupid times and stupid people.
Why should you care about what congress does or says...ring a bell??
Thank you thug supporting poster!!

[Lapdog]

Originally Posted by bb1961

You're a contractor tell us how it works??

I am glad you asked, bb. I am often asked (recently, more than ever) if all of my employees are documented and legal. I have never been required to show proof to the potential customer, but they have every right to demand it if they so desire. If they ever do, then I will then cross that bridge when I come to it. That's where it currently lies. It could change any day. Or not.

[bb1961]

So you skewer Trump about it...I see where you're going with this!!

Your statement:
Yeah, Levianon, keep telling yourself that. Uh huh. Yeah. Your hipocrisy shines like a beacon on the horizon.


Since that was your comment about this post:

That has nothing to do with Trump. Contractors are Independent, they don't work directly for Trump they are contracted out for a particular job. The contractors hire the crews if they are illegal immigrants that's beyond Trump's control. Instead of trying to find negativity about Trump in every nook and cranny start worrying about the dummies on the left that are going to represent you and run against him.

And you proceeded to tell me this:

I am glad you asked, bb. I am often asked (recently, more than ever) if all of my employees are documented and legal. I have never been required to show proof to the potential customer, but they have every right to demand it if they so desire. If they ever do, then I will then cross that bridge when I come to it. That's where it currently lies. It could change any day. Or not.

[bambino]

Originally Posted by Lapdog

I am glad you asked, bb. I am often asked (recently, more than ever) if all of my employees are documented and legal. I have never been required to show proof to the potential customer, but they have every right to demand it if they so desire. If they ever do, then I will then cross that bridge when I come to it. That's where it currently lies. It could change any day. Or not.

So, you dodged the question. Which means you’re breaking the law. Hire citizens and pay them. Preferably at least $15 an hour. You should be kissing Trumps ass for the tax cut he gave you. Unless you’re a fraud and don’t run a business. I’m guessing you don’t.

[Hotrod511]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Such stupid times we live in!

Thanks for confirming.

any time YR I know you struggle with Trump being your president but you should learn to live with it at least till 2024 also help LD while you're at it

[Lapdog]

Originally Posted by bambino

So, you dodged the question. Which means you’re breaking the law. Hire citizens and pay them. Preferably at least $15 an hour. You should be kissing Trumps ass for the tax cut he gave you. Unless you’re a fraud and don’t run a business. I’m guessing you don’t.

He asked me how it works. I told him how it works. I didn't dodge shit. You don't know if I'm breaking the law or not. You don't know who I am hiring and you don't know what I pay. And you certainly don't have what it takes to tell me whose ass to kiss. You said that you were a businessman, too. I think you're a wannabe.

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by Lapdog

Yeah, Levianon, keep telling yourself that. Uh huh. Yeah. Your hipocrisy shines like a beacon on the horizon.

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Such stupid times we live in!

Thanks for confirming.

don't you two go slapping each other's meat just yet. if you read the full and rather lengthy article .. and i did .. it is not nearly the damning expose you two want it to be.

for once i don't blame YR for not pasting in the full article. it is quite lengthy. it'd be a task. but it's there in the provided link.

i'm actually working .. monitoring server builds. i'll be done in awhile and then i'll give you two the "Full Waco" on why this isn't the expose you think it is.


standby valued posters!