Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a plant, 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 it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
