An Undocumented Guatemalan Immigrant Opens Up to the NYT About Working for Trump

When President Donald Trump discusses the undocumented community, he uses malicious, inaccurate, and racist language. When he launched his candidacy for presidency in 2015, Trump called Mexicans “rapists” and “criminals.” During his presidency, he has likened Central Americans to “animals” and portrayed asylum seekers from the isthmus as members of MS-13 instead of the victims of violence. But despite his hatred toward undocumented immigrants, Trump has benefitted directly – and continues to benefit – from their labor. In a New York Times‘ profile, Victorina Morales, a Guatemalan immigrant, opens up about working at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey throughout Trump’s presidency.

Morales has worked at the property since 2013. She applied with phony documents and she has continued to work there and has even received a certificate from the White House Communications Agency for her “outstanding” assistance when Trump has visited. She has even cleaned Trump’s villa as White House officials have discussed important matters. “I never imagined, as an immigrant from the countryside in Guatemala, that I would see such important people close up,” she told the NYT.