Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest 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 making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
