Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge 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 aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $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 producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
