Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions 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 workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
