Discussion: Lawyer: Undocumented Trump Workers 'Threatened With Deportation' By Staff

Undocumented Trump Workers ‘Threatened With Deportation’ By Staff

Some people just don’t know when to stop digging.

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Maid at Bedminster: Another job Americans don’t want. Americans don’t want to clean Big Mac sesame seeds and gawd knows what else from cadet bone spurs bed sheets.

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I find it hard to believe that Donald Trump would be able to wait until after the election before threatening hard-working women of color.

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In addition to cell phones, the maids had to be prohibited from using stain-identifying ultraviolet lights.

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FWIW, this is pretty much a standard tactic for employers who hire undocumented workers. Any time the workers get the slightest bit uppity, or if they get injured on the job and would otherwise get compensation, a company is shocked, shocked to learn that they’ve been deceived, and suddenly awakens to its patriotic duty to get inconvenient personnel tossed out of the country.

(Long ago, I did some reporting on this kind of thing with regard to foreign graduate students, who at some universities would be housed under miserable conditions, paid next to nothing, and threatened with expulsion/deportation if they didn’t produce results for the professor who owned them.)

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So much for the claim that management at the golf course was unaware they were illegally in the country until recently. Not only were they aware of the status of these people, they have been actively exploiting it for over two years.

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As far as Conservative Christians are concerned, they are OK with Trump, slavery is a fitting punishment for entering the country illegally.

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Will ICE stage raids on Trump properties?

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Well, what’s the point of having slaves if you can’t abuse them?

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So the people who clean the personal rooms used regularly and frequently by the President of the United States and his family members are not only not vetted, but are subject to coercion, both by hotel staff and by anyone threatening to turn them in to ICE.

I said “not vetted” and by that I meant by the Trump administration. I am sure the Russians and the Chinese and God knows how many other foreign entities have researched these persons if not planted their own operatives. It’s probably pretty damn hard to penetrate the living quarters of the White House, but that would be doing things the hard way, no?

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I wonder if the Secret Service knew, and when did they know it?

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Exactly. Trump has simultaneously bragged about his Social Security detail and done his best to sideline them from his “personal business”. E.g. the private bodyguard he brought with him to the White House (since gone).

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Not forgetting the 140 immigrants working at Mar-a-Lago .

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I say this in all seriousness: it’s hard to imagine how desperate many immigrants are that they would work for the Trumps. It must be insanely difficult to get out of bed, drag oneself to work every morning and spend the day waiting on those crude, privileged assholes. These workers have more intestinal fortitude than I do.

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They’ve also been providing false documents to illegal employees. Trump’s employees throughout his organization are another example of ETTD.

ETA: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/undocumented-worker-trump-golf-club-doesnt-regret-speaking-out - check this out for the Trump org’s complicity in knowingly hiring illegal workers.

I’m shocked–shocked–to learn that 45* runs sanctuary properties!