NEW YORK — A group of immigrant workers fired from President Trump’s golf clubs say they want to meet with him at the White House to make the case that they should not be deported.
The 21 maids, groundskeepers and other workers fired earlier this year from five of Trump’s clubs asked their former employer in a letter last week to remember all their hard work and give them a chance to make their case in person why they should stay in the country.
“I’m hopeful that he’ll look at the letter. I believe he has a heart,” said Gabriel Sedano, who worked for 14 years as a handyman at Trump’s club in New York’s Westchester County before he was fired in January.
The response on White House stationery, in what appeared to be a form letter, assured the workers that “we are reviewing your message.” The White House didn’t respond to a request for further comment.
The troubles for Trump workers started in December when a maid who had made the president’s bed at his club in Bedminster, N.J., told the New York Times that a supervisor there knew she and other housekeepers and workers were in the country illegally, and used their status against them if they complained about working conditions.
Then other workers at other Trump clubs without proper documents — some employed by him for a decade or more — began speaking out, and the Trump Organization began rounds of firings.
The Trump Organization has said it does not tolerate workers who lie about their status and only recently discovered its workers were in the country illegally.
Democrats in Congress requested earlier this year that the FBI look into whether the Trump Organization acted as a “criminal enterprise” by knowingly hiring workers with false documents and even helping them procure such...
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