Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government 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 already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed 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 overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
