country yet you worked at his golf club? margarita says trump is a hypocrite, that he says they are bad people, rapists and traffickers but they are honest, hard-working people who worked hard for him. he s been benefiting from undocumented labor for many, many years. it s sad that he s been lying to the american people. reporter: we reached out to the trump organization several times asking for a response to these allegations and the fact that the trump organization had employed undocumented workers for years. we didn t get a response. but the organization give a statement to the new york times, who has also done some reporting on this issue, telling the paper that the trump organization has strict hiring practices and if an employee submitted false documentation to circumvent the law they will be terminated immediately. one other note, most of the workers we spoke with in our story are now facing deportation. only one of them, sandra diaz, who we talked to in that story, is now
she was suddenly asked for legal documentation. she says when she told her manager she didn t have it he got his cause tony take her to a house in new jersey to get documents p and that her manager himself paid the $175 fee for her fake documents. there was another client i have in westchester who presented fake documents. and he was told that they weren t they didn t look good enough. so they had him return three times to get fake documents that looked better. did donald trump know where you were from and did he think he knew you were undocumented? [ speaking foreign language ]. victorina told me trump once asked her where she was from and she told him guatemala. she says the majority of housekeepers were undocumented and that trump must have known. margarita cruz worked at a housekeeper in trump s golf club in westchester, new york for nine years. what do you think when you hear donald trump talk about undocumented workers and how you shouldn t be allowed in this
given the best of myself to this job. margarita cruz has been a housekeeper since 2011, eight years. she s a single mom with two kids and in the in the eight years s worked there, the president s company never before raised a question about her employment status. she told the post when the trump organization started filing people, they felt like lams lined up for the slaughter house. they did absolutely nothing. they never said your social security number is bad or something is wrong, nothing, until right now. what changed? a pulitzer prize winning reporter who helped break the story joins us next. let s see, aleve is proven better on pain
the trump organization is making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents. new rule, not how it has been, the employees who were fired showed the washington post their pay stubs and uniforms and their employee of the month awards. one employee who was fired had worked for the trump organization for 18 years, 18 years before he was canned by hr with no warning, no severance, no backup plan. gabriel sedano was a maintenance worker at the golf course and worked for the president s family since 2005. he tells the post when i was fired, i started to cry and told them they need to consider us. i worked almost 15 years and given the best of myself to this job. margarita cruz has been a housekeeper since 2011, eight years ago. she s a single mom with two kids
company, they cannot keep you there. eight years at the club margarita cruz recorded her meeting. we have to terminate our relationship with you today. last month i spoke with two women who came forward about working for other trump property an attorney representing employees at both locations is demanding an investigation. i wouldn t be surprised if the california club has undocumented immigrants and that s why we need a thorough federal investigation. in a statement the trump organization s eric trump told nbc news they have very strict hiring practices saying in part if any employee submitted false documentation in an attempt to circumvent the law they will be terminated immediately we take this issue very seriously. this is one of the reasons my father is fighting so hard for immigration reform the system is broken gabriel and maria agree something is broken, but they don t think they re to blame