Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
