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...from the attached article...
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,I.“The Trump Organization requested and received at least 192 visas for foreign workers in 2018, according to Department of Labor data,” TPM reported in 2019. “That number appears to be the highest for the company going back to at least 2008 and likely much earlier, based on public records.” The largest number of visas went, unsurprisingly, to Mar-a-Lago, where rich members were able to buy personal tours of Air Force One, pick out ambassadorships like they were shopping for a new handbag, and even run a federal department. Job requirements: a six-figure initiation fee (which doubled after Trump became president – yet another coincidence!)

But no overview of Trump’s duplicitous actions would be complete without his business’s similarly extensive history of hiring and exploiting undocumented workers. Those who’ve been paying attention to his escalating rhetoric over the past several months know that he’s used dehumanizing language to attack immigrants, echoing Adolf Hitler by calling them “animals” and saying they’re “poisoning the blood of our country.” But it’s been immigrants who’ve quite literally built his empire.

Decades ago, it was undocumented workers – “nicknamed the Polish Brigade because of their home country,” the Daily Beast reported in 2015 – who demolished the building that would eventually become the site of Trump’s crown jewel and symbol of his wealth, Trump Tower (though it could at risk due to his civil fraud trial – that’s a whole other story). Unsurprisingly, many of these laborers were underpaid – or not paid at all. Trump would later settle with them for $1 million, documents revealed.

We also know about Trump’s use of undocumented labor because of brave workers like Victorina Morales, who stepped forward to speak out about working as a housekeeper at his Bedminster resort in New Jersey.

Morales, who is originally from Guatemala and worked at Bedminster for five years, was such a fixture at the resort that for her exceptional work, she “was given a certificate from the White House Communications Agency inscribed with her name.” Another housekeeper, Sandra Diaz, worked so closely to Trump that she made his bed, cleaned his golf trophies, and even washed the bronzer stains off his clothes. Morales and Diaz knew they did fine work. “There are millions of us here without papers, and the country depends on us,” Morales told Vox in 2019. But she was shocked and hurt when she heard how her then-boss talked about hardworking immigrants like her.

“We saw [Trump’s] attitude on television, the things he said about immigrants like us without papers,” Morales told Vox in 2019.” Then I had to look at him and smile when he was at the club and clean for him. It was too much to bear.” Morales also told The New York Times that there were “many people without papers” at Bedminster. The Washington Post corroborated her claim, reporting a “pipeline” of undocumented workers at the New Jersey resort that “goes back years.”
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And Trump is not alone.,..Republicans in Texas, like Gov. Abbott keep railing against undocumented immigrants, but somehow never try to purge the workforces of businesses in the state that depend on those workers...let's see how many Republican owned firms in that state, or in Iowa and Florida, get raided by ICE.

Trump and his power seekers know how to 'play' their MAGA base...and still come out ahead with cheap labor.


Link: https://americasvoice.org/blog/trump-hates-legal-immigration-except-when-he-loves-it/