Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
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 his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
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 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
