Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge 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 international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 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 certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals 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 well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
