Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
