Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid 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 tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 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 certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
