When President Donald Trump takes to the House podium to deliver his State of the Union address next week, a familiar face will observe him from the audience.
Victorina Morales, a Guatemalan immigrant who was fired from Trump's golf club in New Jersey after revealing she had worked there illegally for years, will attend the esteemed speech as a guest of Democratic congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, her attorney said Wednesday.
"Victorina was sitting next to me and she couldn't believe it," lawyer Anibal Romero told the New York Daily News of when he received the invitation from Watson Coleman's office. "Eight weeks ago she was being abused by her employer, who also happens to be the president of the United States. In a few days, she will be walking into the halls of Congress."
Romero added, "That's why this country is so great."
A White House spokeswoman did not return a request for comment.
Morales is among nearly two dozen undocumented immigrants from Central and South America who until recently worked at Trump's golf clubs in New Jersey and New York and allege they were subjected to abuse and racial discrimination.
Many of the immigrants also say supervisors were aware of their undocumented status and set them up with fake work permits _ allegations that have garnered the attention of federal and state investigators, who are looking into whether the club could have committed fraud and other immigration crimes.
