Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
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