{"id":35256,"date":"2019-01-05T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35256"},"modified":"2019-01-05T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:29:41","slug":"the-hypocrisy-of-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/05\/the-hypocrisy-of-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hypocrisy of Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the wall would solve the problem of undocumented residents, Republicans would have zero interest in building it.  If it were possible to deport all 12 million undocumented residents, Republicans would have zero interest in doing so.  If we could deport undocumented criminals and allow the rest to work here legally, without fear, Republicans would have zero interest in doing it, because it would horrify them.  The interest of the Republican Reich is served only if the problem remains the same.  Republicans practice the hypocrisy of exploitation.<\/font><\/p>\n

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If I told you that President Trump employs undocumented immigrants, you might say, \u201cThat\u2019s impossible. A staunch and principled opponent of illegal immigrants like him would never allow such a thing!\u201d Or, if you actually knew anything about Trump, you might say, \u201cOf course he does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well guess what<\/a>:<\/p>\n

During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump\u2019s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with a Secret Service logo.<\/p>\n

Because of the \u201coutstanding\u201d support she has provided during Mr. Trump\u2019s visits, Ms. Morales in July was given a certificate from the White House Communications Agency inscribed with her name.<\/p>\n

Quite an achievement for an undocumented immigrant housekeeper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ms. Morales\u2019s journey from cultivating corn in rural Guatemala to fluffing pillows at an exclusive golf resort took her from the southwest border, where she said she crossed illegally in 1999, to the horse country of New Jersey, where she was hired at the Trump property in 2013 with documents she said were phony.<\/p>\n

She said she was not the only worker at the club who was in the country illegally.<\/p>\n

Obviously Trump doesn\u2019t personally hire every housekeeper in his clubs (although one of these undocumented immigrants was ironing his underwear; that\u2019s how close to him they were). The Trump organization says it will fire any of its workers it learns is in the country illegally. But the truth is that Trump has a long history of using foreign and undocumented labor, without much regard for the American workers he says are displaced by immigrant labor and sometimes without evident concern for the law. Let\u2019s run through some of his history<\/strong>:<\/p>\n