Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.