Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $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 stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
