Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 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, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people 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 effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
