The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, 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, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
