Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published recently stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
