![]() Quintero said he met with Eric Trump to discuss his job duties and shared copies of text messages sent from a number matching that of Trump's personal cellphone - saved in his contacts under the name "Erik Boss." His work at the shooting range deepens questions about what measures the Trump family and its businesses have taken to prevent the hiring of workers the president casts as invaders and criminals. Quintero's relationship with the president's son shows how the Trump family's reliance on low-wage immigrants without legal status has gone beyond its golf courses. It is unclear whether they knew about Quintero's immigration status. has been running the Trump Organization's day-to-day operations.Įric Trump, who separately owns Leather Hill Preserve with his brother and several other partners, declined to comment. Quintero, whose work at the shooting range has not been previously disclosed, is the second undocumented employee to step forward in recent weeks to say he did work directly to assist Eric Trump, who along with brother Donald Trump Jr. But he said he remained employed by the hunting lodge for more than a year after not providing the owners with a Social Security number when they sought to issue him a debit card. Quintero said he never directly told Eric Trump about his immigration status. "They do not say, 'Let's do something, let's try to help you.' They simply said, 'Your documents are not valid,' and that is it." "All of the years you give them, and they just let you go," Quintero said in a recent interview at his home in Poughkeepsie. Gone, too, was his side job at the hunting retreat. In January, Quintero lost his golf course job after 18 years of employment - part of a purge of undocumented workers from Trump's businesses amid revelations that the company relied on illegal labor for years, well into Trump's presidency. He also was an immigrant from Mexico who had crossed the border more than two decades ago and was working illegally in the United States. Then he would put in five more hours each day as a contractor at the 171-acre hunting retreat called Leather Hill Preserve, which serves as a private weekend playground for President Donald Trump's sons and the property's co-owners. He was a greenskeeper at the Trump National Golf Club Hudson Valley in Hopewell Junction, where he would work eight-hour shifts on weekdays. Quintero, 42, was so trusted by the Trumps that he had not one but two jobs working for the family.
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