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Trump Vineyards Also Hired Undocumented Workers

May 4, 2019 at 4:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The number of Hispanic immigrants who claim to have worked without legal documents for the Trump Organization continues to grow,” Univision reports.

“Univision News interviewed seven undocumented employees who claim to have worked producing Trump wine in the state of Virginia, putting in long hours from sunrise to sunset, without overtime pay.”

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Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

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