1/30/2019

CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An undocumented employee who was recently fired from President Donald Trump’s golf club in New Jersey will attend the State of the Union address next week. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J) invited Victorina Morales, who worked at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., as her guest for the president’s address to Congress on Tuesday [1-29-19], the congresswoman’s office announced on Wednesday. The Washington Post first reported the invitation. Morales, who was born in Guatemala but has been in the United States for nearly 20 years, recently spoke out about her undocumented status and was fired shortly after. Watson Coleman in a statement said that Trump justified shutting the government down ‘by demonizing immigrants as the scourge of the country and the root of our nation’s crime and insecurity.’ She added that Trump‘s company, which is now run by his children, ‘relied extensively on the hard work of undocumented immigrants like my constituent Victorina to keep his resorts clean and his putting greens trimmed.'”

Rebecca Morin, “N.J. lawmaker invites undocumented worker fired by Trump Organization to State of the Union,” Politico, January 30, 2019 9:13 pm