With no benefits or overtime pay
Like Dario Angulo, for example.
At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica’s tallest mountain, Dario Angulo keeps a set of photographs from the years he tended the rolling fairways and clipped greens of a faraway American golf resort.
Angulo learned to drive backhoes and bulldozers, carving water hazards and tee boxes out of former horse pastures in Bedminster, N.J., where a famous New Yorker was building a world-class course. Angulo earned $8 an hour, a fraction of what a state-licensed heavy equipment operator would make, with no benefits or overtime pay. But he stayed seven years on the grounds crew, saving enough for a small piece of land and some cattle back home.
See this is why Trump and guys like Trump love people from points south who come up here to work for Trump and people like him: they cost a fraction of what state-licensed heavy equipment operators cost. He calls them animals but he wants them to work for him – and then go sharply away when he’s through with them.
It’s a common story in this small town.
Other former employees of President Trump’s company live nearby: men who once raked the sand traps and pushed mowers through thick heat on Trump’s prized golf property — the “Summer White House,” as aides have called it — where his daughter Ivanka got married and where he wants to build a family cemetery.
“Many of us helped him get what he has today,” Angulo said. “This golf course was built by illegals.”
Of course Princess Ivanka got married in a place built by people working for her daddy for cut-rate wages. Of course she did.
The brightly painted homes that line the road in Santa Teresa de Cajon, many paid for by wages earned 4,000 miles away, are the fruits of a long-running pipeline of illegal workers to the president’s course, one that carried far more than a few unauthorized employees who slipped through the cracks.
Soon after Trump broke ground at Bedminster in 2002 with a golden shovel, this village emerged as a wellspring of low-paid labor for the private club, which charges tens of thousands of dollars to join. Over the years, dozens of workers from Costa Rica went north to fill jobs as groundskeepers, housekeepers and dishwashers at Bedminster, former employees said. The club hired others from El Salvador, Mexico and Guatemala who spoke to The Post. Many ended up in the blue-collar borough of Bound Brook, N.J., piling into vans before dawn to head to the course each morning.
But he doesn’t want us to know that.
The company’s recent purge of unauthorized workers from at least five Trump properties contributes to mounting evidence that the president benefited for years from the work of illegal laborers he now vilifies.
What illegal laborers? Do you see any illegal laborers?
I’d change ‘but’ to ‘because’.
TRUMP FOUND TO BE A HYPOCRITE…!!!
I can see it now as a banner headline in the Murdoch press, on Sky News worldwide, on Breitbart; etc, etc, etc.
Just might have to wait a short time. Remember they are all such busy people…
But her e-mails!
Sorry. Someone had to say it.
I’ve read about that village (or one like it) before. That article said that Trump’s staff were entirely open about the fact that they were importing illegal workers and paying/treating them badly. It was a joke to them.
Trump properties constructed and staffed by cheap, illegal labour? So, the domestic side of Trump brand products being manufactured overseas by cheap, foreign labour.
If you could manufacture stuff more cheaply offworld and get workers from other planets to work for less, Trump would do both in his business dealings, but would run a campaign on the slogan “Make Earth Great Again.”
YNNB, it’s funny you should say that. I have a t-shirt that says Make Earth Great Again…but it’s an environmental slogan, not a nasty political xenophobic slogan. Now you’ve gone and ruined it for me. ;-)
Well, I’d originally thought of “Earth First” but recalled that Earth First! was already the name of an environmental direct action organization, so I went with MEGA. Sorry to ruin that slogan for you.
If it’s any consolation, the phrase “Common sense” was forever ruined for me by a previous Conservative provincial government in the 1990’s as they named their slash and burn approach to government and the delivery of its programs “The Common Sense Revolution.” Our health care system has never truly recovered from the “take out billions, put back millions” way of “fixing” things. I fear the current Conservative provincial government, led by our pseudo-populist Trump Lite Premier, Doug Ford, is going to ruin much more. People who think it’s a good idea to turn government over to people who think government is an unneccesary obstacle to profit should have their heads examined.
Make Earth Glaciate Again?
YNnB:
It’s been done. Some of the heads rattle when shaken; some don’t, but give a hollow sound when lightly tapped on.
University tests have proved it, so I believe.
Seth, #8: A lovely thought, but.. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/09/two-thirds-glaciers-alps-alpine-doomed-climate-change-ice
Regardless of any cuts in emissions, it is estimated that 50% of the Alpine glaciers will be gone by 2050, two-thirds gone by 2100.