Washington (CNN) Approximately a dozen undocumented employees at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, were fired last week, as lawmakers -- including President Donald Trump -- were in the middle of a partial government shutdown over funding for a border wall, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

The Post spoke to the workers and their attorney who said the abrupt firing took place on January 18, despite some of the individuals having worked as staff at the club for several years.

Last year, The New York Times reported that his private club in New Jersey had employed people who managers allegedly knew were in the country illegally.

The two women who spoke to The Times last year said that supervisors at the club took active measures to help them avoid detection and hold on to their jobs, but the paper said there was no evidence that Trump or Trump Organization executives knew of their immigration status.

The Post reported that at Trump National Golf Club, the company told the workers that they found their immigration documents were fake during an audit.

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