Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report 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 temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
