David A. Farenthold
Washington Post
Washington Post
OSSINING, N.Y. - For nearly two decades, the Trump Organization has relied on a roving crew of Latin American employees to build fountains and waterfalls, sidewalks and rock walls at the company’s winery and its golf courses from New York to Florida.
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Other employees at Trump clubs were so impressed by the laborers - who did strenuous work with heavy stone - that they nicknamed them “Los Picapiedras,” Spanish for “the Flintstones.”
For years, their ranks have included workers who entered the United States illegally, according to two former members of the crew. Another employee, still with the company, said that remains true today.
President Trump “doesn’t want undocumented people in the country,” said one worker, Jorge Castro, a 55-year-old immigrant from Ecuador without legal status who left the company in April after nine years. “But at his properties, he still has them.”
Castro said he worked on seven Trump properties, most recently Trump’s golf club in Northern Virginia. He provided The Washington Post with several years of his pay stubs from Trump’s construction company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, as well as photos of him and his colleagues on Trump courses and text messages he exchanged with his boss, including one in January dispatching him to “Bedminster,” Trump’s New Jersey golf course.
Another immigrant who worked for the Trump construction crew, Edmundo Morocho, said he was told by a Trump supervisor to buy fake identity documents on a New York street corner. He said he once hid in the woods of a Trump golf course to avoid being seen by visiting labor union officials.
Jorge Castro, an Ecuadoran immigrant, works at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., in October 2016. (Courtesy of Jorge Castro)
The hiring practices of the little-known Trump business unit are the latest example of the chasm between the president’s derisive rhetoric about immigrants and his company’s long-standing reliance on workers who cross the border illegally.
And it raises questions about how fully the Trump Organization has followed through on its pledge to more carefully scrutinize the legal status of its workers — even as the Trump administration launched a massive raid of undocumented immigrants, arresting about 680 people in Mississippi this week.
In January, Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons and a top Trump Organization executive, told The Post that the company was “making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment,” saying any such individuals would be immediately fired.
He also said the company was instituting E-Verify, a voluntary federal program that allows employers to check the employment eligibility of new hires, “on all of our properties as soon as possible.” And the company began auditing the legal status of its existing employees at its golf courses, firing at least 18.
Other employees at Trump clubs were so impressed by the laborers - who did strenuous work with heavy stone - that they nicknamed them “Los Picapiedras,” Spanish for “the Flintstones.”For years, their ranks have included workers who entered the United States illegally, according to two former members of the crew. Another employee, still with the company, said that remains true today.
President Trump “doesn’t want undocumented people in the country,” said one worker, Jorge Castro, a 55-year-old immigrant from Ecuador without legal status who left the company in April after nine years. “But at his properties, he still has them.”
Castro said he worked on seven Trump properties, most recently Trump’s golf club in Northern Virginia. He provided The Washington Post with several years of his pay stubs from Trump’s construction company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, as well as photos of him and his colleagues on Trump courses and text messages he exchanged with his boss, including one in January dispatching him to “Bedminster,” Trump’s New Jersey golf course.
Another immigrant who worked for the Trump construction crew, Edmundo Morocho, said he was told by a Trump supervisor to buy fake identity documents on a New York street corner. He said he once hid in the woods of a Trump golf course to avoid being seen by visiting labor union officials.
Jorge Castro, an Ecuadoran immigrant, works at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., in October 2016. (Courtesy of Jorge Castro)
The hiring practices of the little-known Trump business unit are the latest example of the chasm between the president’s derisive rhetoric about immigrants and his company’s long-standing reliance on workers who cross the border illegally.
And it raises questions about how fully the Trump Organization has followed through on its pledge to more carefully scrutinize the legal status of its workers — even as the Trump administration launched a massive raid of undocumented immigrants, arresting about 680 people in Mississippi this week.
In January, Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons and a top Trump Organization executive, told The Post that the company was “making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment,” saying any such individuals would be immediately fired.
He also said the company was instituting E-Verify, a voluntary federal program that allows employers to check the employment eligibility of new hires, “on all of our properties as soon as possible.” And the company began auditing the legal status of its existing employees at its golf courses, firing at least 18.
19 comments:
Soon we'll have turtle ponds all over the city just like the stupid duck ponds and traffic signs all over the place like the bike signs, but a million potholes and no side walks and no bus shelters and flooding galore
@8:52...That's why the city needs to remove the Engineering department. We need a real professional Engineer to fix all the problems you mentioned. This clowns we have right now installing plastic bumps as a curb is comical. Involved in the changing of a street name, instead of figuring out ways to fix flooded areas. The traffic lights have not been updated in three years. Hopefully, this new administration will make the necessary changes in this department.
They are adding a new signal light at central blvd and colonial st. COLONIAL STREET IS A "DEAD END" STREET - WHY??? IS WHOEVER REQUESTED IT IS HE GOING TO PAY FOR THE SIGANL LIGHT AND THE LABOR AND CONTROL BOX????
PINCHES ENGINEERS MAMONES THERE IS NO NO NO NEED FOR A SIGNAL LIGHT AT CENTRAL BLVD AND COLONIAL ST CHECK IT OUT JUAN!!!
@9:36...Hey Pendejo! I went and wasted my time to see there's only a stop flashing light for extra safety reasons. There will never be a Traffic light at that location I guarantee you that! So stop yapping your mouth with stuff you don't know what you are talking about. And it's not a standard dead end street idiot! There's Russell Dr. where one can turn both ways.
2:37PM YOU GUARANTEE IT. I BELIEVE YOU. YOUR JOB AT THE CITY, YOU NEVER DO ANYTHING AT WORK. TU VIEJA TIENE AMOR, Y TU ERES EL PENDEJO.
Idiota it was posted in the herald idiot a trafffic light will be installed and the flashing lights are there for a short time to let the drivers know. Pinche pendejo and ita a dead end idiota. Must be a f*** city engineer
Now go waste some more time at the herald looking for the story estupido one of your friends called the herald for the story to be posted. You'll get paid any way wasting time is a hobby with you engineers. Does that mean you already changed the street sign
Pendejo, the Herald doesn't post future traffic lights in chicken shit streets, like yours. If you are so sure pendejo, then put the Herald link of the article. I know for a fact 100%, there's has been no traffic light study done on that location. So, please stop crying like a bitch! By the way, the Engineering department does not make decisions on street name changes, but we do process the request from higher up management. You wouldn't know about following orders, since you probably never had a job.
Get back to work its 8:27am and posting on blogs, no wonder this city is falling apart do your job. Waste some more city time and go to the local daily and look for your stupid aritcle mamon. What I am going to do is sent your posting to the mayor or as you say higher ups and I would be concern about KEEPING your job! 100% you won't be missed. I see how the city spends MY tax dollars on fools like you and this needs to stop.
WOW that's all we needed city employee insulting tax payers. Where they get estos idiotas??? Hey new mayor you need to clean your city up of unruly uneducated and unrespectable city employees, and just maybe you'll get re-elected.
@11:15/12:15...No sean dedo por favor! I was just pointing out that you are mistaken about the traffic light. I do apologize! I don't want to lose my 75,000 salary...I have a family to support and a mortgage on a huge house to pay. I am trying hard to fix all the flooding areas, but you all need to be patient. Rome was not build in a day! Apologies to whoever I offended!
$75,000.00 poor guy. Stop drinking alcoholic drinks. YOU cannot control your anger. TU VIEJA TIENE AMOR CON OTRO, Y TU ERES EL PENDEJO. This is a blog and not any blog, it is the GREAT JUAN MONTOYA BLOG. OH BY THE WAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUAN.
WHAT? Its your birthday Juan? Aguilla con la ley Feliz Cumpleanos take care bro
@4:06...I barely know my wife's birthday and this joto knows Montoya's birthday! I bet you like getting Montoya drunk and le mamas el chorizo jajaja
LOL at 7:40pm
REALLY JUAN??? opps i mean juanito...
8:02am. Fake news.
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She-it! Da Balley runs on Wetback labor so what is the fuss all about.
you forgot a couple of eee's pendejo 12:24pm
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