Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
