Trump Tower Got Its Start With Undocumented Foreign Workers

NBC News ^ | Feb 26 2016, 3:16 pm ET | Lisa Riordan Seville, Cynthia McFadden and Michelle Melnick

[Hoodat]

When Marco Rubio attacked Donald Trump on the debate stage this week for using undocumented Polish workers to build Trump Tower, the developer shrugged it off.

"He brings up something from 30 years ago," Trump shot back. "It worked out very well. Everybody was happy."

But a look into the history of the Trump Tower, the crown jewel of the real-estate mogul's empire, reveals the beginnings of the 68-story building were, in fact, rooted in the back-breaking labor of 150-odd Polish immigrants — most working illegally, some without full pay.

"It's constructed on the blood, sweat and tears of the Polish Brigade, as they were known in the industry," said attorney Wendy Sloan, who sued Trump and his contractor for union pension violations on the project. . .

[DrewsMum]

Deflection.
Those are things he SAID he would do.

This article is about what he has actually done.

What’s your response to that?

[DrewsMum]

So the buck won’t stop with him when he’s President?

[GailA]

Who Knew? Trump Favors Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants
http://www.newsweek.com/who-knew-trump-favors-amnesty-undocumented-immigrants-395512

Deport illegals, but expedite the return of “the good ones” for legal status

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/30/trump-deport-illegals-but-expedite-the-return-of-the-good-ones-for-legal-status/

Trump’s Touch Back Proposal It’s A Senate Proposal Called ‘Touchback’
http://www.independentsentinel.com/trumps-deportation-proposal-isnt-nazism-its-a-senate-proposal-called-touchback/

Donald Trump’s companies sought visas to import at least 1,100 workers
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-exclusive-idUSKCN0Q62RQ20150802Trump:

[DrewsMum]

Does it bother you that Trump thinks Hillary is better than Cruz?

[Chgogal]

So the government saw fit to fine Trump and NOT round up the illegal immigrants?

[Chgogal]

So the government saw fit to fine Trump and not round up the illegals.

[DoodleDawg]

1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.

Illegal Polish immigrants came across the eastern border so I imagine he's fine with it.

[moehoward]

He hired a contractor 30 years ago to do some work on the first construction of trump tower.

TRUE!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

This ‘scandal’ is such a joke!

Stick a fork in it ...

Trump and his Evil Polish Immigrants [vanity]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3402588/posts

[Albion Wilde]

Sub-contractors. Not Trump.

I am aware. Still, I ping some of these controversial claims so that freepers who know the facts about labor law can comment.

Could Trump Organization be held legally liable for the hiring practices of its subcontractors 30-some years ago when this incident took place? That is the legal question.