Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 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 Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.