Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
