Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build 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 told a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
