Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
