Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 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 actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees 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 spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
