Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
