Workers fired from another Trump property

WASHINTON: Employees of a golf club in New Jersey owned by US President Donald Trump have been fired because they were undocumented immigrants, the media reported.

The club in Pine Hill, New Jersey, known as the Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia, was the third property owned by the President where undocumented workers have been fired since The New York Times reported last December that the Trump club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for years employed immigrants who were in the country unlawfully. The President’s company terminated about a dozen undocumented workers at the Bedminster property after the article was published, as well as a dozen others at the Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, New York, on 18 January.

Informed sources told The New York Times on Friday that about five workers at the Pine Hill property were fired or told not to report to work again, including two seasonal employees.

Many other seasonal workers were expected to be told not to return in the coming weeks, the sources said.

The workers at Pine Hill said their terminations, which also occurred in January, came abruptly.

“Just like that, I got fired,” said Victor Reyes, who is from Mexico.

“The manager called me and asked, ‘Victor, are you legal?’ I said, ‘No, I am not legal’. It surprised me because I knew he knew that I was illegal. I have worked for him 16 years and then he asks me,” he told The New York Times, adding that it was his first job since crossing the border.