Roughly a dozen employees of President Trump’s golf club in New York were fired because they are in the country illegally, according to a report.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that the illegal immigrants who worked at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, were brought to speak with a human resources executive on Jan. 18 and subsequently terminated.
The employees are from Latin America, primarily from Mexico. They said after crossing the southern border on foot, they bought fake immigration documents.
Employees at Trump’s Westchester County golf club were notified in their meeting with human resources that the Trump Organization audited their immigration documents and discovered they were fraudulent.
The executive from the Trump Organization told a worker “this means the club must end its employment relationship with you today,” according to the report.
The dismissals at the New York club amount to roughly half its wintertime staff.
“We are making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment,” Eric Trump, who with Donald Trump, Jr. controls day-to-day operations for Trump’s company, said in a statement to the Washington Post. “Where identified, any individual will be terminated immediately.”
Eric Trump went on to say it’s one reason why “my father is fighting so hard for immigration reform. The system is broken.”
The firings came in the midst of the partial government shutdown and as Trump was demanding Congress provide $5.7 billion for a border wall to combat illegal immigration.
The shutdown lasted nearly 35 days and ended Friday after the president announced a deal to reopen shuttered agencies.
