Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, 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 fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
