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    Armed Venezuelan Gangs Coming For Trump While Biden Does Nothing   
      
      
   Demonizing immigrants played a key role in Donald Trump’s campaign for   
   the presidency, just as cracking down on “illegal” border crossings and   
   whipping the base into a frenzy over a so-called migrant “invasion” has   
   been a regular feature of his time in office and reelection efforts. But   
   undocumented immigrants have also served another, lesser known but   
   nevertheless vital function in the president’s life: providing cheap   
   labor at his businesses. And not just, like, in years past, or in the   
   first few months of his presidency, but as of—what’s that now?—today.   
   Yes, it’s a tough job to foam at the mouth daily about people entering   
   the country without going through the proper channels first, use it to   
   justify separating families and sending people back to nations they’ve   
   never known—all the while relying on them to keep your golf clubs   
   running—but somebody’s got to do it!   
      
   The Washington Post reports that the Trump Organization currently employs   
   a “roving crew of Latin American employees” to perform masonry and   
   maintenance work at his winery and various golf clubs around the country.   
   For almost two decades, the group has been comprised of workers who came   
   into the US illegally—the penalty for which the president seemingly   
   believes should be death—according to two former crew members. Another   
   one, who still works for Trump, told reporters Joshua Partlow and David   
   A. Fahrenthold that remains the case today. President Trump “doesn’t want   
   undocumented people in the country,” said Jorge Castro, an Ecuadorian   
   immigrant without legal status who left the company last spring after   
   nine years. “But at his properties, he still has them.” He added: “If   
   you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter.”   
      
       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.   
      
      
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   Last January, Eric Trump, who took over the day-to-day business with his   
   brother, Don Jr., said that the Trump Organization was “making a broad   
   effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent   
   documents to unlawfully gain employment,” and that any such individuals   
   would be fired immediately. He also claimed that the company was   
   implementing E-Verify, a program that lets employers check the   
   immigration status of new hires “as soon as possible,” though—and please,   
   find something to brace yourself against lest the shock of what you’re   
   about to hear knock you flat on your back—nothing “changed on the Trump   
   construction crew, according to current and former employees.”   
      
      
   It’s almost as though the president wants the political benefit of   
   treating undocumented immigrants as subhuman menaces while simultaneously   
   receiving the economic benefit of being able to hire people who he can   
   pay less money and not provide health insurance, something his “they’re   
   taking our jobs!” supporters would probably take issue with. (Trump “was   
   saving a lot of money with us,” Castro, whose paychecks show that he made   
   $19 an hour starting in 2016, and then $21 an hour in 2018, told the   
   Post. According to a former carpenter on the crew, “the salary for that   
   work,” which included long hours in the sun breaking rocks or digging   
   trenches “was very low,” and he now earns twice as much doing similar   
   work at a union job, where also receives benefits.) There’s also the   
   uncomfortable matter of Trump’s business practice encouraging the very   
   trend he supposedly believes is destroying the country:   
      
       While poverty and violence have pushed thousands to leave Latin   
   America, U.S. businesses that employ undocumented workers are also a   
   major driver of illegal immigration, experts say. By employing workers   
   without legal status, the Trump Organization has an advantage over its   
   competitors, particularly at a time when the economy is strong and the   
   labor market tight, according to industry officials. Undocumented   
   employees are less likely to risk changing jobs and less likely to   
   complain if treated poorly.   
      
      
   The White House did not respond to the Post’s request for comment. The   
   Trump Organization did not respond to specific questions about the legal   
   status of workers at Mobile Payroll Construction—the official company,   
   solely owned by Trump, that started paying the crew as of 2015—, saying   
   in a statement “since this issue was first brought to our attention, we   
   have taken diligent steps, including the use of E-Verify at all of our   
   properties and companies. Those efforts continue and where an employee is   
   found to have provided fake or fraudulent documentation to unlawfully   
   gain employment, that individual will be terminated. Fortunately, among   
   the thousands of individuals employed by our organization, we have   
   encountered very few instances where this has occurred.”   
      
      
   Of course, no one would begrudge Trump for employing undocumented workers   
   if he didn’t spend most of his waking hours railing against the scourge   
   of illegal immigration or, y’know, rounding people up en masse for the   
   crime of what apparently occurs daily at the Trump Organization:   
      
       U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept through seven   
   work sites in six cities across Mississippi on Wednesday, arresting   
   approximately 680 people the agency said were undocumented immigrants in   
   what officials said is the largest single-state workplace enforcement   
   action in U.S. history. The raids targeted agricultural processing   
   plants, part of a year-long investigation into illegal employment of   
   immigrants in the state, officials said.   
      
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   Trump thinks association with a racist windbag who inspires white   
   supremacists to murder dozens of people will make billionaire SoulCycle   
   owner more popular   
      
      
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