Report: Undocumented Immigrants Are Working On Trump's Fancy New DC Hotel

[DonViejo]

Undocumented immigrants are among the construction workers on real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's new Washington, D.C. luxury hotel project, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Trump has garnered headlines and lost several business relationships in the days since his June 16 presidential announcement speech, in which he branded immigrants crossing the U.S. border with Mexico as "rapists" and drug dealers.

Yet when the Post recently spoke with about 15 of the workers renovating the Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue to turn it into the Trump International Hotel, the newspaper found that many had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally before gaining citizenship or other legal status. Some said they remained in the country illegally.

The workers also made it clear that they didn't appreciate Trump's anti-immigrant diatribes. “It’s something ironic,” one worker from Mexico who obtained legal status, Ivan Arellano, told the Post. “The majority of us are Hispanics, many who came illegally. And we’re all here working very hard to build a better life for our families.”

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-dc-hotel-undocumented-workers

[tazkcmo]

1. Surprise!

The corporations make me ill. Deride illegal immigration while using them to lower wages for legal workers. Support policies that ravage the economies of the illegal's home countries then complain about illegal immigration and use them to lower wages for legal workers. As a food service worker and construction worker, I've worked side by side with these illegal immigrants and guess what? They want what we want and they would have preferred to do it in their own country where they would be with family and friends as opposed to traveling thousands of miles, constantly living in fear of deportation, contributing to SS but never receiving it. Ahhhh, a dream come true!

[JustAnotherGen]

2. He has some nerve building ANYTHING right now

http://circanews.com/news/atlantic-city-casino-sales-and-closures-1

Notwithstanding the fact that putting more money into the [Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort] is a questionable business decision, we share the company's desire to see the Taj Mahal remain open and preserve the jobs of the company's employees.
– Allan Brilliant, attorney for Carl Icahn


Billionaire Carl Icahn has offered to bail out the Trump Taj Mahal for $100 million if doing so would grant him ownership. Part of the casino was closed Dec. 1, 2014.

Court documents reveal that Carl Icahn wants to reduce the Taj Mahal's pension liabilities to the Unite Here Local 54 union as a condition to keeping the casino open. The investor also wants bankruptcy judge Kevin Gross to reject the casino's contract with the union. Unite Here represents more than one-third of the casino's 3,000 employees.

[ehrnst]

3. And they still managed all that raping and drug dealing on the side?

Those are some serious time-management skilz!
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[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. and let's not forget Trump's policy on stopping jobs from going to China:

He's "always been very open about it," despite the fact that, 5 seconds earlier, he didn't know the answer himself and Dave had to fill him in.

and despite his promise, he still hasn't moved his factory from Beijing to NYC, surprising no one.