Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $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 defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
