Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday 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 short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years 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 foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
