'My whole town practically lived there': From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal worker
Source: Washington Post
'My whole town practically lived there': From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years
SANTA TERESA DE CAJON, COSTA RICA -- At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica's tallest mountain, Dario Angulo keeps a set of photographs from the years he tended the rolling fairways and clipped greens of a faraway American golf resort.
Angulo learned to drive backhoes and bulldozers, carving water hazards and tee boxes out of former horse pastures in Bedminster, N.J., where a famous New Yorker was building a world-class course. Angulo earned $8 an hour, a fraction of what a state-licensed heavy equipment operator would make, with no benefits or overtime pay. But he stayed seven years on the grounds crew, saving enough for a small piece of land and some cattle back home.
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Other former employees of President Trump's company live nearby: men who once raked the sand traps and pushed mowers through thick heat on Trump's prized golf property -- the "Summer White House," as aides have called it -- where his daughter Ivanka got married and where he wants to build a family cemetery.
"Many of us helped him get what he has today," Angulo said. "This golf course was built by illegals."
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bluestarone
(16,894 posts)Washington Post!!!!!
MontanaMama
(23,301 posts)Lets go.
DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)Everyone seems to ignore the fact that it was george w bush who invited immigrants to come to America to do the "jobs Americans don't want to do".
Remember "guest workers"? I still have no idea how a guest can be a worker. When I invite guests I don't expect them to work. But hey, that's pubicans for you. Whatever it takes to get their way. Now they want all the "illegals" to leave when in truth everyone here is an illegal immigrant.
Deport all trump voters. Make America great again.
And let immigrants from Central America take their jobs!
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)New Jersey? Damn, liquor licenses are probably difficult to obtain there - I wanted to sell beer near his grave site. Then again, he'd probably enjoy that.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)dalton99a
(81,426 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,165 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)And, to quote our own jarqui--
"He brought all those "rapists and criminals" into the country and paid them? "
Hekate
(90,620 posts)...as they were being fired wholesale. But some did talk, and now the Post has followed them back to their original homes, where gods willing, they will prosper and be safe.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)There is no end to the irony.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,860 posts)lostnfound
(16,169 posts)Being a liar and con-man is insulting to the office of President.
Im picturing a series of ads where each ad shows a quick sequence of 1) trump pretending to care about immigration, 2) a personal story of the immigrants that worked on trump properties, and 3) story of the kids in cages or of their separation / reunification. Rinse, repeat.