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The Post has been documenting how Trump, his company and his family have relied on immigrant workers without legal status -- people he describes as criminal invaders. Our latest piece focuses on Juan Quintero, the caretaker for a Trump son hunting retreat:
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Quintero was so trusted by the Trumps that he had not one but two jobs working for the family.
He was a greenskeeper at the Trump National Golf Club Hudson Valley in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., where he would work eight-hour shifts on weekdays. Then he would put in five more hours each day at the 171-acre hunting retreat called Leather Hill Preserve.
After 18 years at the golf course, he lost both posts in January amid the Trump Organization's purge of illegal workers. “All of the years you give them, and they just let you go,” Quintero said.
Quintero said he never directly told Eric Trump about his immigration status. But he said he remained employed by the hunting lodge for more than a year after not providing the owners with a Social Security number when they sought to issue him a debit card.
Quintero said he met with Eric Trump to discuss his job duties and shared copies of text messages sent from a number matching that of Trump’s personal cellphone — saved in his contacts under the name “Erik Boss.”
The exchanges show that Eric Trump closely tracked Quintero’s work.
“Hi Juan. How is the planting coming along? Did you ever get to the small fields — the two off of the rifle range and the soy bean plot?” Trump wrote nine days after first texting the caretaker about the fields.
“Hi Juan. How is the planting coming along? Did you ever get to the small fields — the two off of the rifle range and the soy bean plot?” Trump wrote nine days after first texting the caretaker about the fields.
In recent months, The Post has reported that the Trump Organization employed immigrant workers without legal status at five golf courses in New York and New Jersey.
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One of the president’s prized properties, a club in Bedminster, N.J., was built and maintained by dozens of laborers from Costa Rica and other Latin American countries who worked there for more than 16 years.
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In all, The Post has interviewed 33 immigrants who have worked for the president’s clubs without legal status.
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Quintero now worries about how to find a new job and support his family.
“I am the backbone of the house — what am I going to do now?” Quintero said.
“I am the backbone of the house — what am I going to do now?” Quintero said.
