Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 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, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration 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 international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people 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 stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.