Attorney says more undocumented workers are employed at Trump golf course 1/2/2019
Trump once advocated a "huge financial penalty" for those employing undocumented immigrants
7 questions about Trump’s use of illegal workers at his golf courses
Q1) How many Trump properties have employed illegal workers — and for how long?
A) At least five golf courses — and for 17 years at one club.
Q2) Did their supervisors know about their status?
A) Former Trump workers said there were dozens like them working without legal status — an estimated 100 in Bedminster alone. They told The Post they believed their managers knew.
Q3) Did Trump know he employed workers who had entered the United States illegally?
A) We don’t know.
Neither the Trump Organization nor the White House has responded to questions about what Trump knew.
Q4) As a candidate, what did Trump say about his company’s hiring practices?
A) During the presidential campaign, Trump said his company was using E-Verify, a voluntary federal system that allows employers to quickly check the immigration status of new hires.
“I have thousands and thousands of employees. I have hired tens of thousands of employees, many Hispanic, over the years. Many, many. They’re fantastic,” Trump said at a rally in Beaumont, Tex., in 2015.
Q5) Was that true?
A) Only in part. Three of Trump’s golf clubs are, indeed, listed in the official database of E-Verify users. Eric Trump said “a few” others use a vendor to screen new employees.
Q6) What investigations may the Trump Organization face into its use of illegal labor?
A) Investigators for the New Jersey Attorney General and the FBI have gathered information from former workers at the Bedminster club, according to an attorney for some of the workers. However, the status of those inquiries remains unclear.
The New Jersey Attorney General declined to comment. The FBI declined to comment.
Q7) Would a wall have stopped the undocumented workers from coming to the United States?
A) Some of the Trump workers without legal status said they entered the country by crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. Trump has said the barrier he proposes would stop such migrants from crossing the border.
Critics of his idea point out that existing stretches of wall and fencing haven’t stopped tens of thousands of people from getting through each year and that there is no end to the ways people can get over, under, around or through such barriers.
Other workers arrived on flights with tourist visas and overstayed those visas. In those cases, a wall wouldn’t matter.
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