Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers 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 criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
