Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought 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, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
