Undocumented worker from Trump’s N.J. golf club invited to State of the Union

She cleaned President Donald Trump’s toilet, made his bed, and left her job at his New Jersey golf club after publicly disclosing her status as an undocumented immigrant. Next week, Victorina Morales will meet her former boss once again, this time at his State of the Union address.

Invited to the speech this week by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D., N.J.), Morales, who was born in Guatemala, will sit in the audience on Tuesday as Trump addresses a joint session of Congress.

Morales, a former Trump Organization employee, left her job of five years at the Trump Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., in December, after describing her status as an undocumented worker to The New York Times in the wake of the president’s derogatory comments toward Latin American immigrants and campaign claims that he “didn’t have one illegal immigrant on the job.”

“We are tired of the abuse, the insults, the way he talks about us when he knows that we are here helping him make money,” Morales told the Times. “We sweat it out to attend to his every need and have to put up with his humiliation.”

Along with three other former workers, Morales petitioned members of Congress this week for protection from Immigration Customs and Enforcement and asked lawmakers to scrutinize the hiring practices of the Trump Organization. Some Democratic legislators are are calling for an FBI investigation into the business.

Trump is slated to deliver the State of the Union on Tuesday, delayed one week due to a historically long government shutdown caused by a political stalemate on the president’s proposed border wall. The speech, Trump said Thursday, will address “unity.”

According to the Associated Press, Morales has a message of her own for the president: “Forget about the wall, stop separating families and focus on an immigration reform.”

Like many other lawmakers using their speech guests to make political statements, Coleman said she invited Trump’s former housekeeper to advocate for immigrant rights and in the interest of implementing “a true bipartisan immigration reform plan.”

“Immigrants by and large are hardworking, trustworthy, and skilled people who simply want to work and build better lives here,” Coleman said in a statement. "For years these kinds of people were loyal and dedicated enough to be Trump Organization employees. I hope that in his State of the Union address, Donald Trump will finally acknowledge the real face of immigrants in this country — women and children fleeing violence, law-abiding, tax-paying people who would do almost anything to be Americans.

"And if he can’t, I’ve invited Victorina so that he may look her in her eyes to tell his lies to a familiar face.”