Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions 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 producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
