Washington Post<\/a>: \u2018My whole town practically lived there\u2019: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
By Joshua Partlow, Nick Miroff and David A. Fahrenthold<\/p>\n
At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Now the 34-year-old lives with his wife and daughters in a sturdy house built by \u201cTrump money,\u201d as he put it, with a porch to watch the sun go down.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a common story in this small town.<\/p>\n
Other former employees of President Trump\u2019s company live nearby: men who once raked the sand traps and pushed mowers through thick heat on Trump\u2019s prized golf property \u2014 the \u201cSummer White House,\u201d as aides have called it \u2014 where his daughter Ivanka got married and where he wants to build a family cemetery.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of us helped him get what he has today,\u201d Angulo said. \u201cThis golf course was built by illegals.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Washington Post spoke with 16 men and women from Costa Rica and other Latin American countries, including six in Santa Teresa de Cajon, who said they were employed at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. All of them said they worked for Trump without legal status \u2014 and that their managers knew.<\/p>\n
The former employees who still live in New Jersey provided pay slips documenting their work at the Bedminster club. They identified friends and relatives in Costa Rica who also were employed at the course. In Costa Rica, The Post located former workers in two regions who provided detailed accounts of their time at the Bedminster property and shared memorabilia they had kept, such as Trump-branded golf tees, as well as photos of themselves at the club.<\/p>\n
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