Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought 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, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, 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 doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
