Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee 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 over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.