The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
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