Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
