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    1. @Margaret Nicol THIS NEWS WAS USED ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO , YOU ARE ARE RECYCLING AS YOU DEMOCRAT ALWAYS DO, BUT YOU FOUND A OPPONENT HERE READ TO ARGUE

    2. @Margaret Nicol NO MORE TURN TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BEFORE AMERICAN CITIZEN, YOU MUST BE A IMMIGRANT TRYING TO MAKE BELIEVE THAT IMMIGRANT SHOULD HAVE MORE RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT THAN THE AMERICAN CITIZENS

    3. @AGNUS DEI ”In July 2017, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club applied for visas to hire foreign workers – 15 housekeepers, 20 cooks and 35 servers from October 2017 to May 2018. Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida did the same for 6 cooks.[22]

      In December 2018, The New York Times reported that two illegal/undocumented immigrants had worked for the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey as housekeepers. Sandra Diaz, from Costa Rica, worked there from 2010 to 2013, and later became a legal American resident. Diaz said that she had washed and ironed Trump’s clothes. Victorina Morales worked there from 2013, and said that she had personally made Trump’s bed and cleaned his toilet, with a hourly wage from $10 to $13. Diaz recounted Trump personally tipping her $100, while Morales said Trump tipped her $50 after she told him she was from Guatemala. Diaz and Morales said that at least two of their supervisors knew that they were illegal/undocumented immigrants, and that there were “many people without papers” who were hired.[23] Anibal Romero, a lawyer for Morales, said that in November 2018, he was contacted by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of which were investigating the Trump National Golf Club’s possible hiring of unauthorized immigrants with fraudulent documentation.[24]

      In January 2019, the Trump National Golf Club Westchester fired around a dozen employees for being unauthorized immigrants, some of whom had worked 14 years there, won employee awards there, or had personally prepared meals for Trump. The Washington Post spoke to 16 former and current workers of the golf club, some of whom said that their employers had accepted their fraudulent documentation, and others who said that the thinking of the club was “Get the cheapest labor possible”.[25]

      In May 2019, Univision published a report based on interviews with seven illegal/undocumented immigrants who said that they worked for Trump’s vineyards in the state of Virginia, with long work hours and no overtime pay. They said that Trump’s businesses either did not check for their immigration status or pretended not to know that they were illegal/undocumented.[26]”

  1. America is

    23 in education
    37 in healthcare
    Highest number of homeless people
    Highest number of incarcerated people
    78% of people live paycheck to paycheck.

    Stock market is not economy of Americans, where 90% of money belongs to top 10% of the population, it’s wallet for the Rich!

    Let’s talk like adults instead of name calling!

    I have left proof on my playlist, if you would like to check.

    Let’s make our country better together!

    1. @Sask Sun seekers William H. Is what happens when Trump doesn’t flush the toilet after his big dump!

    2. @Bato Keto Not this foreigner. I never wanted to even visit the US, ever. But, hey, I agree you are entitled to keep America White. You conquered it, you own it, you call it. Just leave other people alone the way you want others to leave your politics alone. Too much to ask ?

    1. @Fellow White Person 😂😂 sheckles, I haven’t hear that word in forever … Thanks for the laugh

    2. PEOPLE SHOULD FORGET THE TROLLS AND PUT THEIR OWN OPINION ON THE BOARD THE REPLY GETS UNSEEN ON THE BOARD.

    1. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸TRUMP 2020! 🎉🎉🎉 20 Years 4 OBSTRUCTION! 20 Years 4 MONEY LAUNDERING!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    2. @john emeigh Trump’s only accomplishment was a tax cut for the wealthy everything else was a failure!

    1. @David Wilkerson Venezuela has free healthcare so that puts them way up the list above the US.

  2. There was a time when the U.S. appeared to be all about actual liberties and integrity as well as encouraging education and innovation, or so I’m being told…I’m sorry to say, but if you look at the stats, you can see how bad the U.S. have become in all of these categories, and unfortunately, they apparently still have a lot of influence on other so called democratic nations. The conclusion here isn’t hard to understand, American votes have more global influence than any others. Americans need to be responsible and be informed.

    1. Yeah America at its best lifts all the other countries up with it, America at its worst is like a black Hole, sucking everything around it into it’s dark lightless core to die… and we haven’t exactly seen “the best” in a while. Not even Obama was quite there. He tried to turn the tide and got a bit closer, but not ever near the actual goal…
      And a good deal of the problem is that a few players on the “marketplace of ideas” try to monopolyze the market, to filter out undesirable offerings before they ever can be presented to the customership… people stop windowshopping all over the place and just look at their favorite stalls… or even their grandparents and parents’ favorite stalls… soon the whole concept stops working as intended.

    2. Maybe if the US kept it’s nose out of other countries and worked on sorting it’s own problems it would do better. All the US does is cause death around the world.

  3. It would be safe to say that the majority of employees at Trump businesses, are IMMIGRANTS.
    Who else would work there?

    1. “it would be safe to say…” lol. yeah who cares about the actual number, we’ll just guess. BTW i’ve stayed at Trump Vegas it’s awesome you should check it out

    2. Where did this idea that Trump doesn’t like immigrants even come from, when has he ever said that?

    3. @Cartoonishly Inept “Mexico doesn’t send us their best” comes to mind. there are a lot of collections of things he said that were outright anti immigration of any form… “go back to your country/where you came from” as said to four elected officials in US congress also stands out…

    4. @Ugly German Truths _”Mexico doesn’t send us their best”_
      Those are *ILLEGAL* immigrants. Why do people on the left have such a hard time with such a simple concept. Calling illegal immigrants ‘immigrants’ is like calling shoplifters ‘shoppers.’

      _””go back to your country/where you came from””_
      That’s not anti-immigrant, that’s anti-ungrateful wretch. Ilhan Omar came here from one of the worst third world countries on the planet and all she does is hate on America. So why did she even come here if she thinks America is such an awful racist place? It’s a valid question.

  4. You’re all worried that immigrants are stealing your jobs..well covid 19 took your job,now your relying on the same immigrant you didn’t want here in this country to harvest & provide for stores …when immigrants become “essential workers” it’s time to change your perspective…we are all immigrants and that is a fact….

  5. You already have 50 mil unemployed ppl. Why are you lieing to ppl who want a better life? To come to what ?

    1. So all those that immigrated from white countries had dark skin. Ellis island would be the long way around wouldnt it?

  6. Republicans only want “white” immigrants who will become Republicans and eventually citizens. For these Republicans, they see brown-skinned immigrants who vote Democrat and may get involved in government thus changing what policy is. #BunkerBoy and his crowd are running scared.

    1. And followers that believe them. Vote Blue/Green in November…we CAN change the leadship in both the WH and Congress.

  7. It’s just black or brown people that Trump wants to keep out, funny his mother and two of his wife’s we’re IMMIGRANTS!!!

  8. Correct MSNBC. Immigrants have superpowers that we just can’t even comprehend. We need them to take over and do our jobs for us.

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