On the 28th day of Trump’s shutdown, the Cry Baby in Chief took out his anger at not getting money for his wall by firing his undocumented workers — one working for him for 15 years.
“They had spent years on the staff of Donald Trump’s golf club, winning employee-of-the-month awards and receiving glowing letters of recommendation.”
To document the firings at the golf course, The Washington Post spoke with 16 current and former workers at the course — which sits among ritzy homes in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., 27 miles north of Manhattan.
Some were trusted enough to hold the keys to Eric Trump’s weekend home. They were experienced enough to know that when Donald Trump ordered chicken wings they were to serve him two orders on one plate.
But on Jan. 18, about a dozen employees at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y., were summoned, one by one, to talk with a human resources executive from Trump headquarters.
During the meetings, they were fired because they are undocumented immigrants, according to interviews with the workers and their attorney. The fired workers are from Latin America.
The sudden firings — which were previously unreported — follow last year’s revelations of undocumented labor at a Trump club in New Jersey, where employees were subsequently dismissed. The firings show Trump’s business was relying on undocumented workers even as the president demanded a border wall to keep out such immigrants.
The firings at the New York golf club — which workers said eliminated about half of the club’s wintertime staff — follow a story in the New York Times last year that featured an undocumented worker at another Trump club in Bedminster, N.J. After that story, Trump’s company fired undocumented workers at the Bedminster club, according to former workers there.
Gabriel Sedano worked for Trump for 15 years
“I started to cry,” said Gabriel Sedano, a former maintenance worker from Mexico who was among those fired.
"I'd never done anything wrong, only work and work."
Sedano, the maintenance worker from Mexico, said he had a set of keys for a home that Eric Trump used at the course, because Sedano was responsible for taking out the trash there and making repairs.
Sedano recalled cleaning the railings one day at the club’s main entrance when Donald Trump approached him.
“He asked me how long I had worked there. At that time, it had been about five years,” Sedano recalled.
Trump noticed Sedano’s wedding ring. He handed Sedano $200.
“He said, ‘Take your wife out to dinner,’ ” Sedano said. “I’ll never forget that.”
Keep the workers. Deport anchor baby Trump.
