What specific Trump Organization properties were named in investigations alleging undocumented hires?
Executive summary
Investigations and reporting have repeatedly named several Trump Organization properties — most prominently the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. — as sites where undocumented workers were hired or worked, with journalists and advocates also pointing to multiple Trump golf clubs and resort properties in other states [1] [2] [3]. Reporting and advocacy materials further name specific locales including Sterling, Va.; Philadelphia; Westchester County, N.Y.; Jupiter, Fla.; and Mar-a-Lago as tied to either undocumented labor or the recruitment of foreign seasonal workers [4] [5] [6] [7].
1. Bedminster: the focal point of multiple investigations
The most frequently cited property is Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, where The Washington Post and other outlets reported that more than 100 undocumented immigrants worked during construction and that managers knew some employees lacked legal status, a conclusion cited across coverage and prompting firings and calls for investigation [1] [2] [3]. Former employees who said they worked there and used false papers were quoted in AP and other outlets, and congressional and advocacy groups used Bedminster as a central example in calls for federal and state probes [8] [9].
2. A network of golf clubs and resorts: “multiple properties” named
Reporting did not limit allegations to a single site; journalists and advocates pointed to several Trump golf clubs and resorts collectively, noting audits and terminations across multiple locations and citing that more than 20 undocumented workers were fired from Trump National Golf Clubs between December and February in the period covered by those reports [10] [11]. Public-facing summaries and news outlets characterized the pattern as involving “Trump golf clubs” in several jurisdictions rather than a single rogue venue [3] [1].
3. Sterling, Va., and itinerant construction crews tied to many sites
Investigations into the construction subcontractor Mobile Payroll Construction LLC — which supplied crews that worked across Trump properties — produced testimony and paystubs tying undocumented workers to as many as seven Trump sites, including work at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., and other resort maintenance and repair jobs [7] [4]. Those accounts emphasized that an itinerant crew model made it difficult to confine alleged undocumented hiring to one address, with reporting describing movement of the same crews among multiple Trump properties [4] [7].
4. Philadelphia, Westchester County and Jupiter, Fla.: hotels and resorts cited
Beyond golf clubs, investigative articles and long-form reports cited hotel and resort properties in Philadelphia, Westchester County, N.Y., and Jupiter, Fla., as having employed undocumented workers at points during construction or operation, with earlier coverage naming those locales specifically in recounting eyewitness accounts and legal complaints [5]. These mentions were not isolated to single articles: they appear in multi-outlet coverage that drew a distinction between club operation staff and broader resort or hotel staffing [5] [1].
5. Mar-a-Lago and H-2B recruitment: foreign workers vs. undocumented hires
Reporting from ethics groups and watchdogs pointed to Mar-a-Lago in a different but related strand of reporting: as a facility that has contracted recruiters to source foreign seasonal workers — sometimes through legal H-2B pathways — and as a locus for events tied to the organization’s recruitment activity, though these reports focus on foreign legal temporary workers more than undocumented hires specifically [6]. The distinction matters in the record: some sources emphasize reliance on guest recruiters and visa programs, while investigative journalism homed in on undocumented workers at golf clubs and construction sites [6] [1].
6. Gaps, patterns and the limits of public reporting
Coverage consistently documents Bedminster as the clearest case and names several other golf clubs, resort and hotel locales, plus an itinerant construction crew connected to “seven Trump properties,” but public reporting varies in specificity: some outlets list particular towns (Sterling, Philadelphia, Westchester, Jupiter) while others describe a broader pattern across “Trump properties” or “Trump golf clubs” [1] [7] [5] [4]. Where reporting does not provide exhaustive property-by-property lists, it instead points to audits, firings and congressional inquiries that treated multiple clubs and resorts as part of the same problem [10] [11] [3].