Former Trump housekeeper Victorina Morales will attend the State of the Union address as a guest of New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, the Congress member’s office confirmed to The Washington Post:
Morales has been the most vocal of the undocumented workers recently fired by the Trump Organization. She was terminated in December after the New York Times published a story about her titled, “Making President Trump’s Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers.”
Morales (who worked at the Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club owned by Trump) and a group of other former resort workers visited with congressional members this week, hoping their personal stories can ultimately lead to a formal investigation into abuses and potentially criminal hiring practices by the Trump Organization.
Morales is not the first undocumented immigrant to recently attend a State of the Union under Trump. Last year, congressional Democrats like Sen. Kamala Harris of California and then-House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland invited Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients as their guests.
As for Morales, she may be sitting too far away for Trump to recognize, but is she were up closer, that could very well be a different story. “Ms. Morales has had dealings with Mr. Trump that go back years,” the New York Times reported last year, “and her husband has confirmed that she would on occasion come home jubilant because the club owner had paid her a compliment, or bestowed on her a $50 or sometimes a $100 tip.”