WP: They say they came to the U.S. illegally. Now they’re working on Trump’s D.C. hotel.

[Faryn Balyncd]

. . . For weeks, dozens of construction workers from Latin America have streamed onto the site of the Old Post Office Pavilion in downtown Washington and taken pride in their work building one of the city’s newest luxury hotels. . .But that job site is now laden with tension after the man behind the project — billionaire developer Donald Trump — put himself at the center of the nation’s debate over illegal immigration.

. . . “The majority of us are Hispanics, many who came illegally,” Arellano said in Spanish. “And we’re all here working very hard to build a better life for our families.” . . . Interviews with about 15 laborers helping renovate the Old Post Office Pavilion revealed that many of them had crossed the U.S-Mexico border illegally before they eventually settled into the Washington region to build new lives. . . Several of the men, who hail mostly from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, have earned U.S. citizenship or legal status through immigration programs targeting Central Americans fleeing civil wars or natural disasters. Others quietly acknowledged that they remain in the country illegally. . . .

Several of the laborers — who travel to work from as far away as Baltimore or Manassas, Va., every day — fumed at Trump’s comments, saying that they have led honest lives that have allowed them to buy homes and raise U.S.-born children. . . . “Do you think that when we’re hanging out there from the eighth floor that we’re raping or selling drugs?” Ramon Alvarez, 48, a window worker from El Salvador, said during a break Monday morning just outside the construction site. “We’re risking our lives and our health. A lot of the chemicals we deal with are toxic.”



complete story at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/they-say-they-arrived-in-the-us-illegally-now-theyre-working-on-trumps-dc-hotel/2015/07/06/9a785116-20ec-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html

[Duckhunter935]

1. Karma

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Is beautiful, I hope this makes the big news

[kwassa]

2. Karma

As in, my karma ran over your dogma.

[Duckhunter935]

3. Oops, good catch

[realFedUp]

10. Sure haven't heard media yet on this

[tavernier]

14. It was just on NBC evening news

[fasttense]

4. Trump thinks these people are criminals

Yet he has no problem taking advantage of their willingness to work for low low wages. He can't insult them in one breath then reap the rewards by taking advantage of them with his next breath. I'm surprised they continued to work for him.

[yellowcanine]

6. To be fair, he said "some of them might be good people."

How magnanimous of him. He is practically on par with Mother Theresa!

[B Calm]

5. You will never hear Trump say we need to arrest employers who hire illegals!

[calimary]

8. Gee, funny how that works, 'eh?

[0rganism]

7. are they diseased rapists?

maybe mr. trump has only been exposed to immigrants who work at his hotels, perhaps the ones who work for him are more likely to be diseased rapists as he frequently suggests.

[iandhr]

9. I am shocked shocked to find gambling going on here.

[MynameisBlarney]

16. Your winnings, sir...

[bucolic_frolic]

11. OMG! Why isn't Mr. Trump afraid

of evil Latin American labor embodied in his hotel?

The cake bakers won't sell cakes to people who don't
support their religious beliefs. How can Donald operate a
hotel contaminated with labor he doesn't want in this country?

This gets rolling it could freeze a lot of industries.

[sdfernando]

12. My 1st thought when trump made that comment was....

I wonder if he knows how many illegals he employs....and 2nd thought was...and I know he knows that he employs illegals.

Hypocrite!

[Paper Roses]

13. Mr Trump: Do you know how to spell-----

Hypocrite?
Can you define it?

[IronLionZion]

15. So Trump is a criminal

and is openly enabling crime!

If he pretends to be ignorant, then he's a miserable failure at business.

Ask him if these are the types of jobs the hard working job creators like to create with their tax cuts.

[Thespian2]

17. K & R

We have Mexicans working in our village under a Canadian government program...all they are trying to do is make better lives for themselves and their families...They are hard-working, very normal people...


The Donald should just stick his head back up his ass...

[Mnpaul]

18. I hope they are joined in speaking out

by all the immigrants who are cleaning his properties. Wouldn't it be funny if they all walked off the job and Trump's empire fell apart without their help?