Former Trump club employee says management kept her off Secret Service screening list because she is undocumented

In the last month, several former employees of Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., have said that they were hired despite their lack of legal immigration status. Credit: Brendan Smialowski, AFP, Getty Images

A former kitchen employee at one of President Trump’s golf clubs in New Jersey said her superiors kept her name and those of other undocumented workers off a list of people to be vetted by the Secret Service before a Trump visit to the club in 2016.

Emma Torres, 43, an immigrant from Ecuador, said that she informed a human resources official at the club that she did not have papers to live legally in the United States when she was asked to submit her information for a clearance check. She said the names of undocumented workers were then excised from a list turned over to the Secret Service.

Torres could not recall the name of the person who modified the list or the exact date of the incident. But she said she continued in her job at the club and was later working in the kitchen when Trump visited the club under Secret Service protection.

View the complete January 3 article by Joshua Partlow, Tom Hamburger and Carol D. Leonnig on The Washington Post website here.