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While running for president, Trump touted a national E-Verify mandate.
“We will ensure that E-Verify is used to the fullest extent possible under existing law, and we will work with Congress to strengthen and expand its use across the country,” he declared in a 2016 speech in Arizona.
But his support for E-verify does not extend to even the properties under his own control.
His golf courses in North Carolina and Doral, Fla., use it, as well as his Mar-a-Lago resort and his hotels in Washington and Chicago.
But a number of other Trump properties — including the Bedminster golf club — do not appear in that database of employers using E-Verify.
And now there are revelations (in the failing NYT) of undocumented workers at one of these properties. These workers claim that management knew of their immigration status.
Of course, this could just be Trump (or his organization - certainly not clear or likely that Trump had any direct knowledge) being smart. Getting cheap labor.
This is exactly the fear that Trump stoked on the campaign trail. Brown people will come and steal your beautiful white American jobs and depress your wages.
Despite promises of doing something about it, and control of both houses of Congress and the White House, the Republicans have done next to nothing.
“We will ensure that E-Verify is used to the fullest extent possible under existing law, and we will work with Congress to strengthen and expand its use across the country,” he declared in a 2016 speech in Arizona.
But his support for E-verify does not extend to even the properties under his own control.
His golf courses in North Carolina and Doral, Fla., use it, as well as his Mar-a-Lago resort and his hotels in Washington and Chicago.
But a number of other Trump properties — including the Bedminster golf club — do not appear in that database of employers using E-Verify.
And now there are revelations (in the failing NYT) of undocumented workers at one of these properties. These workers claim that management knew of their immigration status.
Of course, this could just be Trump (or his organization - certainly not clear or likely that Trump had any direct knowledge) being smart. Getting cheap labor.
This is exactly the fear that Trump stoked on the campaign trail. Brown people will come and steal your beautiful white American jobs and depress your wages.
Despite promises of doing something about it, and control of both houses of Congress and the White House, the Republicans have done next to nothing.
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