Trump Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
