Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP 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 billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
