Trump Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released recently stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain 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 particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
