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They have made a sort of quasi-public affirmation that they don't want to do this anymore, that they maybe did this in the past but now they'll stop or try to get a handle on it. this new reporting from you about what they're now calling the mobile payroll construction firm, right, this company that trump is operating, that's using these undocumented workers, this seems to be not only current, but it seems to post date the affirmations from the trump organizations in the past that they wouldn't do this anymore. >> it does, you're right. in january, which was three to four years after president...

So they said at the time, look at us, we're now doing the right thing, we're enrolling our business in e-verify, auditing their documents and getting rid of the folks that shouldn't be here. what we learned with this story is that that was not a complete, thorough purge. for these focus that work for the in-house construction crews, these are valuable workers, they know how to build everything to the trump organization's specifications. these valuable workers, to them it's like nothing ever happened. as workers were being purged at other golf clubs, to them, nothing had changed. they just kept...

Employers are going to be held accountable in this? >> that's another difficult assessment, because on the one hand, employers who don't know and make a reasonable effort to screen these employees may avoid liability, but on the other hand, one has to wonder, even using e-verify, how effective their screening techniques are if these are folks, if these end up being folks who have no documentation whatsoever. so, a raid like this really puts the focus on employers who may be benefiting from using people without proper documentation as employees. >> do you get a sense that these employers are po...

The extent to which this is a long story. help us understand what the trump organization has said the degree to which they've changed their policies as a result of this reporting? >> well so when the first big story on the issue came out of the "new york times" in december about a couple maids at trump's bedminster golf course who were undocumented, they came forward to tell their story, the trump organization said this was the first that essentially they had heard of this. that they conducted an audit to look at their employees across several golf courses. and that resulted in a bunch of firi...

No idea where they are. we are told 400 people are still being detained in facilities here in mississippi and in louisiana, chuck. >> and explain why the government hasn't really been able to explain why the companies themselves, they won't say whether the companies are going to be charged with any crime, they're not explaining why the companies themselves aren't the first ones targeted. why is it that the workers were targeted before the companies who did the hiring? >> reporter: and that is what many people here are asking as well. now the companies have come back and said that they are coop...