Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump 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 week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
