By Joshua Partlow Joshua Partlow National and foreign affairs. Former correspondent focusing on Latin America and the Middle East. Email Bio Follow April 10 at 4:01 PM President Trump has shown he is willing to take dramatic steps to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States, but his administration has been silent about one company that long relied on unauthorized labor: Trump’s own business.
It was just the latest effort by congressional Democrats to provoke action against Trump’s company. Last month, congressional Hispanic Caucus members criticized the “apparent failure” of the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the Trump Organization about the issue. Before that, Sen. Robert Menendez wrote in February to the FBI and DHS about the “serious nature of these allegations.”
The silence comes as Trump has turned his attention back to his signature issue — illegal immigration — amid a burgeoning crisis at the border. Frustrated with the record number of families from Central America turning up at the border to seek asylum, Trump ousted his Homeland Security secretary and other leaders in the department this week in an effort to install a more aggressive team.
“We have tens of thousands of employees across our properties and have very strict hiring practices,” the company said in December. “If any employee submitted false documentation in an attempt to circumvent the law, they will be terminated immediately. We take this issue very seriously.” Companies that hire large numbers of undocumented workers regularly attract law enforcement attention. Last week, ICE arrested nearly 300 workers at a technology company outside of Dallas, in one of the largest immigration raids in years.
Trump is major abuser, but government will cover it up.
Why is the woman who did human trafficking in Jupiter Fl close friends of Trump and had watched The Super Bowl with him? Someone needs to investigate this!
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Action speak louder than words. Wake up America. The president and his family playing you for fools. We are being lead by PT Barnum (yep, there's a sucker born every minute and they are all Trump supporters).
Stories like this while denying the crisis at the border is proof the Washington Post is dying.
Deflect much?Get back 2 the REAL news.Idiots in record number are forcing children who are usually not their own on an ILLEGAL, abusive & deadly journey they might not survive.All to gain better access to a country not their own but which offers 2 many freebies.NotAsylumSeekers
You need to go after House leaders to come up with the immigration reform bill Trump has been asking for since day one. You're so worried he's turning into a dictator but then you treat him like he has all the control. Shameful smear tactics once again.
This is such a lame point of attack from the left. They pretend that Trump himself or members of his family are responsible for hiring at each property that Trump owns. Every little decision. It's for weak minded, one dimensional thinking people. (the modern day left)
This presidency is one big crime spree.
You mean the lady who committed identity theft, got a job at his hotel, then lied about to...oh you guys, and after your hack journalism was exposed?
He loves the work ethic and price tag of the immigrant work force when it comes to his own properties, but he knows his base wants this country to be run by old white men who are born into privelege, so he panders.
They better scrutinize every company in the hospitality industry in that case. Fake documents are easy to get and hard for employers to detect.
Better be scrutinized