What was it like to work on Donald Trump’s properties as an undocumented employee—both before and after he ran for president? On Wednesday’s Full Frontal, Samantha Bee interviewed multiple former employees to find out. The roundtable interview included workers who had been on Trump’s payroll for four to 10 years. What’s striking, however, is how they say the treatment they received shifted once Trump began his presidential run.

“When I got there I asked the supervisor, ‘Do we need papers here?’” one woman recalled. “And she says, ‘No, no, it doesn’t matter. But in 2016, they started asking for documents. And then my manager told me, ‘This guy will take you somewhere where they make those papers.’” She told Bee she was given $175 to pay for the two documents. After the campaign began, she was allegedly also not permitted to clean Trump’s residence—but she says she was allowed to clean Ivanka’s and Eric Trump’s homes.

“When he became president they gave me a diploma thanking me for my work,” she added. “From the White House.”

But after the New York Times published an article about Trump’s undocumented employees, the firings began, the group said. “He got rid of us,” another former employee said. “For what? So they wouldn’t catch him having illegal workers.”

Another former employee added that they have proof of their employment and mistreatment: “We have payrolls,” she said. “We have that we paid taxes without benefits.”

“The supervisor would assign me double shifts,” the first source said. “And she would tell me, ‘This is how we should treat immigrants’—and if we said anything, immigration would come. And when [Trump] called us ‘immigrant rapists,’ the supervisor would say, ‘Good, good, that’s nice because immigrants are no good. Garbage.’ ... There were many insults, and she even hit me three times,” she alleged. “So I decided to speak out, because there was so much injustice.”

Immigration lawyer David Leopold, who is working with a large group of former employees to build a legal case, alleges that Trump’s properties have engaged in forced labor and coercion, as well as trafficking—charges that could carry a penalty of 20 years in prison. “Donald Trump has become the poster boy for why we need immigration reform in this country,” he told Bee. Her response? “He’s also the poster boy for ketchup abuses of steak.”

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