Trump says he doesn't know if his New Jersey golf club still employs undocumented immigrants
Before leaving Washington on Friday to spend the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, President Trump was asked by reporters if it still employs any undocumented immigrants — a question he said he wasn't able to answer.
"Well that, I don't know, because I don't run it," Trump said. "But I would say this: Probably every club in the United States has that because it seems to be, from what I understand, a way that people did business. But we've ended whatever they did, we have a very strict rule and those rules are very strict. But it seems that every club practically in the United States, that's the way they do business."
Trump ran his campaign on the promise of building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, which he said would stop the flow of undocumented immigrants into the country. In February, The Washington Post reported that at his Bedminster club, managers knew they were hiring workers who did not have legal status, migrants who came from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. "Many of us helped him get what he has today," former employee Dario Angulo told the Post. "This golf course was built by illegals."
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Trump's son, Eric Trump, confirmed to the Post in February that the Trump Organization had fired at least 18 undocumented workers employed at golf courses in New Jersey and New York.
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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