Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
