Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
