Trump's Organization Attempted 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 period, while his administration 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 bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions 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 staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency 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 his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
