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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 11:40 PM Feb 2019

His pipeline of illegal workers

By Joshua Partlow, Nick Miroff and David A. Fahrenthold
February 8 at 2:58 PM

At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica’s 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 ...

“Many of us helped him get what he has today,” Angulo said. “This golf course was built by illegals.”

The Washington Post spoke with 16 men and women from Costa Rica and other Latin American countries, including six in Santa Teresa de Cajon, who said they were employed at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. All of them said that they worked for Trump without legal status — and that their managers knew ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/my-whole-town-practically-lived-there-from-costa-rica-to-new-jersey-a-pipeline-of-illegal-workers-for-trump-goes-back-years/2019/02/08/8cdbc1dc-2971-11e9-97b3-ae59fbae7960_story.html

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His pipeline of illegal workers (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2019 OP
Which House committee would be the best to address this? RockRaven Feb 2019 #1
K&R Scurrilous Feb 2019 #2
trumpian hypocrisy?!? Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2019 #3
Hey Deplorables, your dear leader is a yuuuge hypocrite. He'd rather hire illegals for cheap than SammyWinstonJack Feb 2019 #4

RockRaven

(14,974 posts)
1. Which House committee would be the best to address this?
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 11:54 PM
Feb 2019

Judiciary to ask why Trump's never been prosecuted?
Homeland Security to ask why ICE never raided Bedminster?
Oversight to probe whether Trump interfered with normal department, agency, or Secret Service operations which would have brought this to light sooner?

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
4. Hey Deplorables, your dear leader is a yuuuge hypocrite. He'd rather hire illegals for cheap than
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 01:41 AM
Feb 2019

hire youse guys....LOL! MAGA! And he'll continue to do so.

SUCKERS!

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