Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, 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 attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
