Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
