Undocumented Worker Fired by Trump Invited To State Of The Union

An undocumented worker who was fired by the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster has been invited to the president's State of the Union address.

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-Somerset, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, invited Victorina Morales of Bound Brook to join the congresswoman as her guest at the address on Tuesday.

Morales, an undocumented immigrant, was recentlyy fired by the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster and has since campaigned for "rights and fair treatment," according to Watson Coleman.

Efforts to get comment from the White House were not immediately successful.

Watson Coleman said Trump led a company that "has relied extensively on the hard work of undocumented immigrants like my constituent Victorina to keep his resorts clean and his putting greens trimmed."

President Trump justified shutting the government down for 5 weeks "by demonizing immigrants as the scourge of the country and the root of our nation’s crime and insecurity," Watson Coleman said.

"Donald Trump wants to build silly walls to stop the same immigrants that he’s made a career and a fortune from exploiting," she said.

The invitation comes as the FBI and New Jersey's attorney general are now allegedly probing allegations of harassment and immigration fraud claims at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, according to an attorney representing the club's former workers, including Morales.

FBI agents and the state Office of Attorney General have met with Anibal Romero, a Newark attorney who represents several undocumented immigrants who worked at the Trump National Golf Club. The OAG has declined to confirm the probe.

Romero told Patch that he provided fraudulent green cards and Social Security numbers to the OAG that management at the club allegedly used to hire his clients, including Morales.

Romero also said he reached out to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's office, which is investigating theh 2016 Trump presidential campaign's alleged ties to Russia. Mueller's office apparently referred him to the FBI, and two agents subsequently met with Romero recently at a federal office in Branchburg.

Read more: FBI Allegedly Looks Into Trump NJ Golf Club As New Details Emerge

Watson Coleman noted that Trump has threatened another shutdown if he can’t get a wall along the southern border of Mexico.

The only thing his wall has any chance of securing, she said, is "Trump’s ego."

"I’m hopeful that Congress steps up to lead where Trump has failed," she said. "We need to implement a true bipartisan immigration reform plan — one that both secures our border and establishes a pathway to citizenship for people like Victorina, who are positively contributing to our communities."

Watson Coleman said she hopes that, in his State of the Union address, Trump "will finally acknowledge the real face of immigrants in this country — women and children fleeing violence, law-abiding, tax-paying people who would do almost anything to be Americans."

"And if he can’t, I’ve invited Victorina so that he may look her in her eyes to tell his lies to a familiar face,” she said.

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