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lostnfound

(16,169 posts)
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 11:41 AM Feb 2019

'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."

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/my-whole-town-practically-lived-there-from-costa-rica-to-new-jersey-a-pipeline-of-illegal-workers-for-trump-goes-back-years/2019/02/08/8cdbc1dc-2971-11e9-97b3-ae59fbae7960_story.html?utm_term=.6a01b8ce7ff5

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'My whole town practically lived there': From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal worker (Original Post) lostnfound Feb 2019 OP
PLEASE let the TRUTH be known!!!!! bluestarone Feb 2019 #1
Rip this bandaid off! MontanaMama Feb 2019 #2
pubicans and immigration DirtEdonE Feb 2019 #3
Yes PatSeg Feb 2019 #5
Family Cemetery? Better upgrade the sewer systems... LakeSuperiorView Feb 2019 #4
k&r DesertRat Feb 2019 #6
Trump, build that wall already! ffr Feb 2019 #7
Kick dalton99a Feb 2019 #8
From Jeff Bezos' Washington Post n/t TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #9
This is a dupe post.. GREAT !! The more dupes the better.. LOLOLOL pangaia Feb 2019 #10
Trump Crime Family thought today's ICE & Homeland would frighten these folks into total silence... Hekate Feb 2019 #11
Yep. And the White House was built by slaves. SunSeeker Feb 2019 #12
Trumpy has no shame. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2019 #13
Tom Steyer should consider funding ads on the immigration hypocrisy of Trump lostnfound Feb 2019 #14
 

DirtEdonE

(1,220 posts)
3. pubicans and immigration
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 11:56 AM
Feb 2019

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.

 

LakeSuperiorView

(1,533 posts)
4. Family Cemetery? Better upgrade the sewer systems...
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 11:59 AM
Feb 2019

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.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
10. This is a dupe post.. GREAT !! The more dupes the better.. LOLOLOL
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 01:08 PM
Feb 2019


And, to quote our own jarqui--

"He brought all those "rapists and criminals" into the country and paid them? "

Hekate

(90,620 posts)
11. Trump Crime Family thought today's ICE & Homeland would frighten these folks into total silence...
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 02:00 PM
Feb 2019

...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.

lostnfound

(16,169 posts)
14. Tom Steyer should consider funding ads on the immigration hypocrisy of Trump
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 04:32 PM
Feb 2019

Being a liar and con-man is insulting to the office of President.
I’m 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.

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