Trump’s biz used, fired illegal immigrants

WASHINGTON: As President Donald Trump ran and won a campaign for the White House on a key promise of stopping illegal immigration with a wall along the Mexico border, his businesses employed many undocumented workers, a dozen of whom were fired over the past days after serving for years.

The Washington Post reported on Saturday, the day after Trump announced a deal with Democrats to reopen a fourth of the federal government shut down by a stalemate over funding for his wall, that the Trump National Golf Course in Westchester county in New York state, fired a dozen employees on January 18.

The sackings came after oneon-one conversations with human resource executives from Trump Organization, the parent company.

All of those fired were from Latin America, and included employees trusted enough, the Post reported, to hold the key to the weekend home of Eric Trump, the president’s second son. The New York Times had first reported about Trump businesses employing undocumented workers for years, who, in fact also received generous tips from Trump and were often rewarded for good work. The focus of that article was Trump’s Bedminster in New Jersey. They were let go subsequently.

“We are making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment. Where identified, any individual will be terminated immediately,” Eric Trump said in an emailed statement to the Washington Post for the article on Westchester golf course.

He added that it is one of the reasons “my father is fighting so hard for immigration reform. The system is broken.”

On Sunday, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said President Trump is prepared for another government shutdown if Congress won’t work with him to secure the Us-mexico border.

Mulvaney said Trump doesn’t want to see federal agencies closed again and doesn’t want to declare a national emergency either. But he said Trump is prepared to do either.