Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers 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 certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
