Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with 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.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
