A 'pipeline' of undocumented immigrants reportedly helped build and maintain Trump's New Jersey golf club

Trump National Golf Club.
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The undocumented immigrant employees recently fired from President Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey golf club were not merely individual workers who "slipped through the cracks," but rather part of a "long-running pipeline" that ran from Central America to New Jersey — "a wellspring of low-paid labor," The Washington Post reported Friday.

One former Costa Rican maintenance worker told the Post that his "whole town practically lived there" working to build and maintain the golf club. The Post spoke with 16 former club employees from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala; all said that they had worked illegally at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, needing only a "crudely printed" fake green card and a fraudulent Social Security number obtained in the U.S., and that their managers knew of their status.

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Jacob Lambert

Jacob Lambert is the art director of TheWeek.com. He was previously an editor at MAD magazine, and has written and illustrated for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and The Millions.