A dozen immigrant workers at one of President Donald Trump's golf clubs in New York who are in the US illegally were fired this month even though managers had known about their legal status for years, a lawyer for the workers has said.
As the president railed during the partial government shutdown against immigrants coming into the country illegally, a manager at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County called a dozen immigrant workers into a room one by one on January 18 and fired them, said lawyer Anibal Romero on Saturday.
Many of them had worked at the club for a dozen or more years, he said, and managers knew they had submitted phony documents but looked the other way.
"This is bogus. People have been there for 12, 13, 14 years," said Romero. He added, referring to one of the president's sons, "One had the keys to Eric Trump's bedroom."
"We are making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment," he said. "Where identified, any individual will be terminated immediately."
"I told them they needed to consider us," said Gabriel Sedano. "I'd given the best of myself to this job."
"I'd never done anything wrong, only work and work," he added. "They said they didn't have any comments to make."