Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee 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 journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the period 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 period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
