Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released recently stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
