Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years 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 GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work 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 response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
