Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
