Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
