Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people 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 told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
