Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
