On Nov 28 Newsweek had a 'news scoop' based on recently released court records. The scoop was that Donald Trump had once hired illegal immigrants and underpaid them. Reading deeper into the story, the time of the hiring was 1980 (the image is Trump meeting Reagan in about 1980). This was before NAFTA which was negotiated in 1993. It is even before the 1986 Immigration Reform Bill signed by then President Reagan. Also, Trump's hiring of the illegals had been indirect as Trump had contracted with a company that did the actual hiring (although that company's use of illegals was probably widely known).
Considering this as hypocrisy would be silly because of the antiquity of the action. Trump, however denied ever having hired illegals which is actually an example of magic thinking. It is more belligerent and gross than other politicians (e.g., "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period. Nobody will take it away from you."). Politifact recorded several dozen versions of this, here. The Newsweek story noted above is here. A Time story from 2016 with more details on the building project in question, and which has the Trump picture from 1980 on the site of the project, is here.
