Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
