Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
