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Donald Trump touts his own Mexican staffers as proof that he is not racist – but Hispanic employees at his own golf club say they are offended by his comments and support Hillary Clinton, reports the Guardian’s Amber Jamieson.

Mar-a-Lago Club. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

“I’m Mexican and I don’t like how he speaks about Mexicans,” said one of his employees at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, shortly after the presumptive Republican nominee spoke on the night of the Tuesday primaries. The Guardian spoke with three workers who said that many Mexicans work at the golf club, in the restaurant and the grounds of the lush golf course.



Although Trump didn’t bring up his usual lines about building a wall betweenMexico and the US on Tuesday night, he did speak about ensuring criminals did not enter the country as immigrants.



“I’ve embraced the victims of illegal immigration … the moms and dad who’ve had to bury their own children because of people who shouldn’t have been in the country,” said Trump in a speech read off teleprompters, his family standing beside him.



“Not everyone who is Mexican is like how he says – rapists, criminals,” said one frustrated Mexican staffer.

“There are people who think that we take away work from them. But it’s not like that … you think that an American is going to come and do this work? No one, not one. It’s hard.”