Despite her work and possible deportation, the undocumented immigrant who publicly identified herself as an employee of President Donald Trump's golf club in New Jersey said she did not regret to have expressed himself.
"We must defend ourselves and defend ourselves," Victorina Morales told The Associated Press through tears, referring to other undocumented workers at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster. "I was sick of suffering."
According to Morales, whose story was first reported by the New York Times last week, "many undocumented people" work at the golf club. She stated that she and other undocumented workers are being abused and discriminated against by supervisors because of their immigration status. She told AP that, according to the news service report, a supervisor "had pushed her three times against a wall, told her to stop speaking Spanish and threatened her with" Expulsion if she complained ".
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Victorina Morales and Sandra Diaz, Undocumented Employees at Trump Golf Course
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Victorina Morales, on the left, and Sandra Diaz, on the right, recall their experiences Working at President Donald Trump Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, during an interview, Friday, December 7, 2018 in New York. The women reported using false legal documents to get hired and the supervisors knew it. (AP Photo / Bebeto Matthews)
Victorina Morales recalls his work experience at President Donald Trump's Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, during an interview in New York on Friday, December 7, 2018. Morales says she used fake legal documents to get hired at the station and that the supervisors knew it. (AP Photo / Bebeto Matthews)
Lawyer Anibal Romero, in the center, joins his clients, Victorina Morales, left, and Sandra Diaz, right, during an interview in New York on Friday, December 7, 2018. Morales and Diaz, who recalled their work experience at President Donald Trump's Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, reported using false legal documents to hire and that supervisors knew they were doing so. . (AP Photo / Bebeto Matthews)
Sandra Diaz, right, listening to Victorina Morales, on the right, remembers her work experience at President Donald Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, at the time of writing. an interview, Friday, December 7, 2018, in New York. York. Morales and Diaz both reported using false legal documents to get hired at the station and the supervisors knew it. (AP Photo / Bebeto Matthews)
Victorina Morales recalls his golfing experience of President Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, during an interview in New York on Friday, December 7, 2018. Morales says that she used fake legal documents to get hired at the station and the supervisors knew it. (AP Photo / Bebeto Matthews)
Victorina Morales, left, listens to Sandra Diaz, on the right, remembering her work experience at President Donald Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, at the time of writing. an interview, Friday, December 7, 2018, in New York. York. Morales and Diaz both reported using false legal documents to get hired at the station and the supervisors knew it. (AP Photo / Bebeto Matthews)
Victorina Morales (left) and Sandra Diaz (right) listen in an interview in which they talk about their work experience at President Donald Trump's golf club in Bedminster , New Jersey, December 7, 2018, in New York. The women reported using false legal documents to get hired and the supervisors knew it. (AP Photo / Bebeto Matthews)
Victorina Morales starts crying during an interview and remembers being humiliated by a supervisor while she was working at the President's Golf Club Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, Friday, December 7, 2018. New York. Morales says she used fake legal documents to get hired and that the supervisors knew it. (AP Photo / Bebeto Matthews)
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Some supervisors alleged that undocumented workers were "donkeys" and "dogs," she said.
Morales, who has worked as a golf club housekeeper for over five years and has personally cleaned up Trump's residence several times, said that she thought the president's inflammatory rhetoric at the about undocumented immigrants encouraged such verbal harassment.
"We're tired of abuse, insults, the way he talks about us when he knows we're helping him make money," Morales told the Times. . "We have enough to meet all of her needs and support her humiliation."
At least three other immigrant women who worked at the Trump & # 39; s Bedminster Club came forward in recent days to say that they were also undocumented at the time of their employment – and the management of that club was informed of their immigrant status.
"The President states that, in the places where he is the owner, he Hiring no undocumented workers … it's a lie ", Sarah Diaz, a native of Costa Rica, who worked at the club from 2010 to 2013 and is now a legal resident of the United States, said at AP.
It seems unlikely that Trump himself knows the immigration status of the four women.
A spokesman for the golf club said in a statement last week that an employee who allegedly presented false documents would be immediately
Morales, who reported using false social security and permanent residence documents to secure the position, told AP that she had not been informed "definitively" of her dismissal. She and Diaz were considering bringing a lawsuit against the Trump Organization for workplace abuse and discrimination at her workplace.
Ms. Morales, a native of Guatemala whose family received death threats, said she was asking for asylum to stay in the United States.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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