Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation 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 restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.