Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased 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 sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
