Trump Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
