blind eye?

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CBP Chief Forced To Explain Why ICE Raids Haven't Targeted Trump's Companies

By Cristina Cabrera August 11, 2019 4:13 pm

2 minutes

Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan on Sunday had to explain why sweeping immigration raids haven’t affected President Donald Trump’s companies despite multiple reports of those companies hiring undocumented immigrants.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that even as Trump cracks down on immigration through harsh measures, Trump Organization itself currently has undocumented immigrants working on its construction sites.

CNN’s “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper pointed out to Morgan that despite immigration agencies’ major increases in raids, including the ones in Mississippi last week that led to a record 680 arrests, there’ve been “zero raids” at Trump’s businesses.

“It seems like you guys are turning a blind eye to this crime being committed by the President’s own companies,” Tapper told Morgan, who recently served as the head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency before he was tapped as acting CBP commissioner in July.

Morgan said he’s “never known anybody in law enforcement to turn a blind eye to someone that’s committing a crime.”

When Tapper commented that it seemed like there haven’t been any investigations into Trump’s companies, the acting CBP commissioner said that “you can’t really say that for sure” because “there are investigations going on all the time that you’re unaware of.”

“And we shouldn’t be aware of those investigations,” Morgan said. “So those investigations should be done without notifying everyone, because, of course, it is going to jeopardize the investigation if I come on here and I talk to you about an investigation that is going on.”

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Truthfully. The real story is this: $$$$>>>>Democrat/Republican.

Rich people with power using cheap illegal labor, making a stand on it, faking shock and horror and promising justice with no follow through on those that hire, doesn't surprise me. That's an American tradition long long long before Trump ever showed.

[AU64 10,122]

On ‎8‎/‎12‎/‎2019 at 8:13 AM, aubiefifty said:

The Washington Post reported on Friday that even as Trump cracks down on immigration through harsh measures, Trump Organization itself currently has undocumented immigrants working on its construction sites.

I'd like some specifics about this.....which is probably BS but even if not, there are undocumented aliens working on construction sites all over the sanctuary cities of California and nothing happening there either.  

These companies in Miss. were blatant and stupid..JMO and were a good place to send a message and better still I guess, the raids could happen without the local citizens rioting and trying to interfere like they are doing in many places....

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34 minutes ago, AU64 said:

I'd like some specifics about this.....which is probably BS but even if not, there are undocumented aliens working on construction sites all over the sanctuary cities of California and nothing happening there either.  

These companies in Miss. were blatant and stupid..JMO and were a good place to send a message and better still I guess, the raids could happen without the local citizens rioting and trying to interfere like they are doing in many places....

if you google it the washington post has two recent articles but they keep wanting me to subscribe. i cannot read but the first couple of lines and it will not even let me copy and paste. i promise you it is there.

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40 minutes ago, AU64 said:

I'd like some specifics about this.....which is probably BS but even if not, there are undocumented aliens working on construction sites all over the sanctuary cities of California and nothing happening there either.  

These companies in Miss. were blatant and stupid..JMO and were a good place to send a message and better still I guess, the raids could happen without the local citizens rioting and trying to interfere like they are doing in many places....

Report: Trump Happily Employing Undocumented Workers Amid ICE Raids

Condé Nast

9-12 minutes

Demonizing immigrants played a key role in Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, just as cracking down on “illegal” border crossings and whipping the base into a frenzy over a so-called migrant “invasion” has been a regular feature of his time in office and reelection efforts. But undocumented immigrants have also served another, lesser known but nevertheless vital function in the president’s life: providing cheap labor at his businesses. And not just, like, in years past, or in the first few months of his presidency, but as of—what’s that now?—today. Yes, it’s a tough job to foam at the mouth daily about people entering the country without going through the proper channels first, use it to justify separating families and sending people back to nations they’ve never known—all the while relying on them to keep your golf clubs running—but somebody’s got to do it!

The Washington Post reports that the Trump Organization currently employs a “roving crew of Latin American employees” to perform masonry and maintenance work at his winery and various golf clubs around the country. For almost two decades, the group has been comprised of workers who came into the US illegally—the penalty for which the president seemingly believes should be death—according to two former crew members. Another one, who still works for Trump, told reporters Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold that remains the case today. President Trump “doesn’t want undocumented people in the country,” said Jorge Castro, an Ecuadorian immigrant without legal status who left the company last spring after nine years. “But at his properties, he still has them.” He added: “If you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter.”

Castro said he worked on seven Trump properties, most recently Trump’s golf club in Northern Virginia. He provided The Washington Post with several years of his pay stubs from Trump’s construction company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, as well as photos of him and his colleagues on Trump courses and text messages he exchanged with his boss, including one in January dispatching him to “Bedminster,” Trump’s New Jersey golf course.

Another immigrant who worked for the Trump construction crew, Edmundo Morocho, said he was told by a Trump supervisor to buy fake identity documents on a New York street corner. He said he once hid in the woods of a Trump golf course to avoid being seen by visiting labor union officials.

Last January, Eric Trump, who took over the day-to-day business with his brother, Don Jr., said that the Trump Organization was “making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment,” and that any such individuals would be fired immediately. He also claimed that the company was implementing E-Verify, a program that lets employers check the immigration status of new hires “as soon as possible,” though—and please, find something to brace yourself against lest the shock of what you’re about to hear knock you flat on your back—nothing “changed on the Trump construction crew, according to current and former employees.”

It’s almost as though the president wants the political benefit of treating undocumented immigrants as subhuman menaces while simultaneously receiving the economic benefit of being able to hire people who he can pay less money and not provide health insurance, something his “they’re taking our jobs!” supporters would probably take issue with. (Trump “was saving a lot of money with us,” Castro, whose paychecks show that he made $19 an hour starting in 2016, and then $21 an hour in 2018, told the Post. According to a former carpenter on the crew, “the salary for that work,” which included long hours in the sun breaking rocks or digging trenches “was very low,” and he now earns twice as much doing similar work at a union job, where also receives benefits.) There’s also the uncomfortable matter of Trump’s business practice encouraging the very trend he supposedly believes is destroying the country:

While poverty and violence have pushed thousands to leave Latin America, U.S. businesses that employ undocumented workers are also a major driver of illegal immigration, experts say. By employing workers without legal status, the Trump Organization has an advantage over its competitors, particularly at a time when the economy is strong and the labor market tight, according to industry officials. Undocumented employees are less likely to risk changing jobs and less likely to complain if treated poorly.

The White House did not respond to the Post’s request for comment. The Trump Organization did not respond to specific questions about the legal status of workers at Mobile Payroll Construction—the official company, solely owned by Trump, that started paying the crew as of 2015—, saying in a statement “since this issue was first brought to our attention, we have taken diligent steps, including the use of E-Verify at all of our properties and companies. Those efforts continue and where an employee is found to have provided fake or fraudulent documentation to unlawfully gain employment, that individual will be terminated. Fortunately, among the thousands of individuals employed by our organization, we have encountered very few instances where this has occurred.”

Of course, no one would begrudge Trump for employing undocumented workers if he didn’t spend most of his waking hours railing against the scourge of illegal immigration or, y’know, rounding people up en masse for the crime of what apparently occurs daily at the Trump Organization:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept through seven work sites in six cities across Mississippi on Wednesday, arresting approximately 680 people the agency said were undocumented immigrants in what officials said is the largest single-state workplace enforcement action in U.S. history. The raids targeted agricultural processing plants, part of a year-long investigation into illegal employment of immigrants in the state, officials said.

 

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So ...this might be true and DT has been president for less than 3 years....and something like 10 million illegals are in the US...and you are worried about a "roving crew" of masonry workers that might number a couple hundred?    And you know they are illegal?  Wapo and NYT will publish anything that is negative about DT and facts are optional......anonymous sources making charges and no confirmation....just the  usual "they declined to reply".   

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8 hours ago, AU64 said:

I'd like some specifics about this.....which is probably BS but even if not, there are undocumented aliens working on construction sites all over the sanctuary cities of California and nothing happening there either.  

These companies in Miss. were blatant and stupid..JMO and were a good place to send a message and better still I guess, the raids could happen without the local citizens rioting and trying to interfere like they are doing in many places....

I work in the medical field in Austin. Employee comes in injured, self employed construction, has person with them that says send bill here and provides the employees information. Happens every single day.

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On 8/15/2019 at 9:59 AM, AU64 said:

So ...this might be true and DT has been president for less than 3 years....and something like 10 million illegals are in the US...and you are worried about a "roving crew" of masonry workers that might number a couple hundred?    And you know they are illegal?  Wapo and NYT will publish anything that is negative about DT and facts are optional......anonymous sources making charges and no confirmation....just the  usual "they declined to reply".   

It's legit 64.

And considering (anti) immigration policy is the foundation of Trump's campaign rhetoric, the hypocrisy is breathtaking.