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E-Verify is a federal government online portal that performs thorough checks of new hires, querying Social Security and Homeland Security information to ensure the person is eligible for work in the United States.
The only businesses that are signed up are golf courses in LA, New York, Miami and Charlotte, as well a hotel in New York and Washington, D.C.
But all the other businesses do not use the E-Verify portal and for years, illegal immigrants [aka: illegal aliens] have worked at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, courses in Philly, Bedminster, New Jersey and in Virginia, according to The New York Times.
For more than five years, Victorina Morales, an illegal alien from Guatemala who breached the border in 1999, has worked at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster. She has the honor of making the President's bed, dusting his golf trophies, and cleaning his toilet where many a Whopper had begun its journey overseas.
“I never imagined, as an immigrant from the countryside in Guatemala, that I would see such important people close up,” she said, in Spanish. She also complained about Mr. Trump’s “abuse, the insults, the way he talks about us when he knows that we are here helping him make money.”
Ms. Morales did, however, fill out a few immigration-related employment documents for Mr. Trump's golf club, but those were probably I-9 forms, which illegal immigrants aren't afraid of filling out because they use fake identities and Social Security numbers and are rarely caught.
The Washington Times said Ms. Morales purchased the counterfeit documents in New Jersey that she submitted to the golf club, though she said her employers seemed to be aware of her illegal status, particularly after they changed her duties once Trump started running for president.
Experts agree that Mr. Trump’s companies could have avoided the embarrassment if they had signed up for E-Verify.
“Any person who runs for any elected office should immediately sign up for E-Verify for any employee situation they have, whether they’re running their own businesses, whether they’re hiring labor at home, whatever it is, just as a matter of pure common sense,” said Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager for NumbersUSA, which, for years, has called for E-Verify to be made mandatory for all businesses.
That’s also a position President Trump took on the campaign trail — making his own companies’ lack of use all the more striking.
The White House declined to comment on whether the president still supports E-Verify. They directed questions to the Trump Organization, the umbrella group for the 565 companies he listed as having a stake in on his May 2018 financial disclosure.
“We have tens of thousands of employees across our properties and have very strict hiring practices. If any employee submitted false documentation in an attempt to circumvent the law, they will be terminated immediately,” a Trump Organization spokesperson said in a statement.
The organization did not address questions about why so few of its companies use E-Verify.
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