Voldemort: Immigrants Didn’t Build Empire State Bldg

The Huffington Post reports:

Donald Trump’s senior White House aide Stephen Miller pushed a bonkers, racist claim on Monday after he suggested that he could spot someone’s immigration status just by looking at a picture of them. “If you look at photos of the Empire State Building being constructed — in record time, by the way — you know what you don’t see there? Any illegal aliens,” Miller told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.

“You look at the photos of us landing a man on the moon, you look at the NASA control room, you don’t see any photos of illegal aliens. Americans built this country, Americans sustained this country, Americans have powered this country for two and a half centuries.” In reality, immigrants played a key role in the construction of the Empire State Building, a project that — at its peak — had a workforce of 3,500 people.

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In the 1930s it was the Italian and Irish immigrants that were primarily coming to the US, and they definitely did help build the Empire State Building. They just weren’t brown. He’s letting his racism show, as usual. https://t.co/9hXVTBMXHT

— Dj Omega Mvp (@DjOmegaMVP) July 22, 2025

The Empire State project employed ~3,400 construction workers, many Italian and Irish. Mohawk ironworkers, ‘sky boys’, were vital crew members.

One bricklayer, Aniello Conte, was an Italian undocumented immigrant. His papers are not visible in photos. https://t.co/TL3EzfGxxh https://t.co/pnx1FsUf5B pic.twitter.com/6P5wRcuqjo

— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) July 21, 2025

Mohawk ‘Skywalkers’ Helped Build New York City’s Tallest Skyscrapers.

Native American riveting gangs worked on the ‘high steel’ for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more. pic.twitter.com/l30xLWEFzU

— Divakar S Natarajan (@divakarssathya) March 31, 2023