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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFahrenthold - From Costa Rica to NJ, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years...
My whole town practically lived there: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back yearsBy Joshua Partlow, Nick Miroff and David A. Fahrenthold February 8 at 10:23 AM
SANTA TERESA DE CAJON, COSTA RICA At his home on the misty slope of Costa Ricas tallest mountain, Dario Angulo keeps a set of photographs from the years he tended the rolling fairways and clipped greens of a faraway American golf resort.
Angulo learned to drive backhoes and bulldozers, carving water hazards and tee boxes out of former horse pastures in Bedminster, N.J., where a famous New Yorker was building a world-class course. Angulo earned $8 an hour, a fraction of what a state-licensed heavy equipment operator would make, with no benefits or overtime pay. But he stayed seven years on the grounds crew, saving enough for a small piece of land and some cattle back home.
Now the 34-year-old lives with his wife and daughters in a sturdy house built by Trump money, as he put it, with a porch to watch the sun go down.
Its a common story in this small town.
Other former employees of President Trumps company live nearby: men who once raked the sand traps and pushed mowers through thick heat on Trumps prized golf property the Summer White House, as aides have called it where his daughter Ivanka got married and where he wants to build a family cemetery.
Many of us helped him get what he has today, Angulo said. This golf course was built by illegals.
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Fahrenthold - From Costa Rica to NJ, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years... (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2019
OP
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)1. "This golf course was built by illegals."
and there ya have it
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)2. Wow!
Bezos comes out swingin!
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)3. Shocker
There is not one person in high places, businessman or politician who has not benefited from undocumented workers in one way or another.
Heck, we all have. They're just the new boogeyman for trumps base of deplorables.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)4. The gloves are off now!
Cheatolini is burnt soggy toast!