Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
