Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line 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 host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
