Trump based his candidacy and now his presidency on stopping illegal immigration. “The ‘everybody does it’ excuse is no excuse. That includes the undocumented workers such as Victorina Morales and Sandra Diaz.” “It’s clear that small numbers of people work at the clubs for many years and knew and interacted with Trump personally. “The excuse that Donald Trump is too busy to know about hiring at his ‘empire’ is ludicrous. Leopold, an immigration lawyer and counsel to the immigration advocacy group America’s Voice, said Trump supporters were grasping at straws to defend him. “Everyone has a right to come here, but there is a formal process. “Americans should have American jobs,” he said.
Trump in 2016 and might vote for him again, but he called the decision a “fluid situation” that will include consideration of the illegal employees. He said he was a registered Democrat who voted for Mr. “How is he different from the other people who hire illegal immigrants?” said Andrew, a 42-year-old information technology worker in the state capital, Harrisburg, who did not give his last name. In the U.S., illegal immigrants make up roughly 53 percent of farmhands, 15 percent of construction labor, and 9 percent of manufacturing and service industry workers, according to Pew. and 7.8 million have jobs, accounting for nearly 5 percent of the civilian workforce, according to the Pew Research Center.
The businesses also responded to reports of illegal workers by firing scores of employees who were in the country unlawfully.Ībout 11 million illegal immigrants are living in the U.S. In January, the Trump Organization announced it would start using E-Verify. It took a second round of illegal immigrants who said they, too, worked at Trump properties to spark a change. Trump’s business empire were signed up to use E-Verify, the government’s best tool to weed illegal immigrants out of the workforce. Bonnie Watson Coleman, New Jersey Democrat.Īfter the first illegal immigrants came forward late last year to say they had been employed at one of his golf courses, The Washington Times reported that just five of the 565 companies in Mr. “I’ve invited Victorina so that he may look her in her eyes to tell his lies to a familiar face,” said Rep. They brought to the speech as their guests two women, Victorina Morales and Sandra Diaz, who were illegal immigrants when they worked at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The big picture will cost him support with the middle-class voters who want him to play by the rules just like they do.”ĭemocratic members of Congress began highlighting the illegal hires during the president’s State of the Union address. “His employment of immigrants is simply a small part of a bigger picture. His illegal use of immigrants is just another example of Trump saying one thing and doing another, just like his embrace of traditional values in contrast to his extramarital affairs,” he said. Trump’s credibility and try to puncture his Rust Belt base, said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon. They should expect to hear more about the illegal hires as Democrats make it part of their assault on Mr. His supporters said he either was not responsible for front-line hiring decisions or that employing illegal immigrants is a common and near-unavoidable practice in America’s hospitality and construction industries. In interviews with Trump voters throughout Pennsylvania, the president got the benefit of the doubt. “He is fighting his ass off for the wall,” said Mr. Trump nevertheless was keeping his promises, including combating illegal immigration. Trump next year, saying he was more excited about it than in 2016 because Mr. Skidmore, who cites stopping illegal immigration as a top concern.
“That’s a little upsetting, to be honest with you,” said Mr. “I’m sure it is just cheap labor,” said Butch Skidmore, 40, a Trump voter and former Navy SEAL who was tossing back a beer at the bar in the Republican Club of Hanover.īut he bristled at the reports of widespread hiring of illegal immigrants as housekeepers, groundskeepers and laborers at Trump golf clubs and resorts, as well as a Washington Post report detailing how the president’s son Eric Trump employed an illegal immigrant as the caretaker of his private hunting retreat. Now she, like other Trump voters across this crucial 2020 battleground state, struggled to excuse the president.
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