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mahatmakanejeeves

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Fri May 3, 2019, 01:01 PM May 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Trump vineyard also hired undocumented workers

If true, would mean undocumented workers were employed at 6 @realdonaldTrump's properties as of 2019:
--Westchester golf club
--Bedminster golf club
--Colts Neck golf club
--Philly Golf golf club
--Hudson valley golf club
--Winery in Va.



EXCLUSIVE: #Trump vineyard also hired undocumented workers. It's not just Trump’s golf courses that recruited #undocumented immigrants. The Trump vineyards in Charlottesville, Virginia, also hired them according to several employees. http://uni.vi/QgKh101zH39 @ClaudiaUceda



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EXCLUSIVE: Trump vineyard also hired undocumented workers
It's not just Trump’s golf courses that recruited undocumented immigrants. The Trump vineyards in Charlottesville, Virginia, also hired them according to several employees.
CLAUDIA UCEDA

2 MAY 2019 – 10:39 PM EDT

The number of Hispanic immigrants who claim to have worked without legal documents for the Trump Organization continues to grow.

Univision News interviewed seven undocumented employees who claim to have worked producing Trump wine in the state of Virginia, putting in long hours from sunrise to sunset, without overtime pay.

"I've been here for six or five years,'' said one of the workers who claims he was hired after presenting false documents that were not verified.

The immigrant, who asked not to be identified to avoid reprisals, took Univision on a tour of the vineyard, and proudly showed the field where he works every day. ... Thanks to his labor and that of other immigrants, the Trump brand produces 40,000 cases of wine a year.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump vineyard also hired undocumented workers (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2019 OP
The exploited suffer SHRED May 2019 #1
Kickin' for the truth! Faux pas May 2019 #2
Remind me never to buy any of his wine. murielm99 May 2019 #3
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