New York Daily News

PREZ HIT AGAIN ON IMMIGS Former worker scoffs at claim he doesn’t use undocument­ed staff

- BY CHRIS SOMMERFELD­T

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

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