Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction 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.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
