Trump Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
