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Trump Labor pick Puzder says he employed undocumented immigrant

The nominee to lead the Labor Department, fast-food restaurant executive Andy Puzder, said he employed an undocumented immigrant as a housekeeper. Meanwhile, the OMB nominee Mick Mulvaney said he failed to pay federal payroll taxes for a nanny.

By Jennifer Epstein | Updated on February 07, 2017

(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Labor Department, fast-food restaurant executive Andy Puzder, said he employed an undocumented immigrant as a housekeeper until learning of the worker’s immigration status — the second Trump nominee to make such a disclosure.

Immigration issues with household employees have forced other presidents’ nominees to drop out of consideration, but neither Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants Inc., the parent company of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., nor the chairman of the committee considering his nomination see it derailing the process.

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