PREZ HIT AGAIN ON IMMIGS Former worker scoffs at claim he doesn’t use undocumented staff
President Trump said Friday that his namesake businesses have stopped employing undocumented immigrants — but a Costa Rican woman who used to work at one of his golf clubs is calling bull.
Talking to reporters on the White House lawn before departing for a long weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., the president said the Trump Organization has implemented “strict” hiring rules since reporting by the Daily News and other outlets revealed dozens of undocumented immigrants worked at several of the company’s locations.
“Those rules are very strict,” Trump said, claiming his businesses no longer have any undocumented employees as a result.
“We’ve ended whatever they did,” he added.
But Sandra Diaz, a previously undocumented immigrant from Costa Rica who worked as a housekeeper at Trump’s Bedminster club between 2010 and 2013, says she knows of at least six undocumented workers who are currently employed at the Trump Winery in Charlottesville, Va.
“He’s still lying as always,” Diaz told The News.
Diaz, who obtained legal immigration status after quitting her Trump job, declined to name the undocumented immigrants she says are working at the winery, adding she’d put them at risk of being fired.
However, she said she knows the workers “personally.”
“I know them, that’s all I can say,” she said. “He’s still using undocumented people.”
A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization did not return a request for comment.
Trump purchased the winery in April 2011 and officially opened it in October of that year. Since 2012, Trump’s son, Eric Trump, has operated the sprawling wine estate.
Anibal Romero, a lawyer who represents Diaz and 43