Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.