The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy 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 have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
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Bonnie Nichols
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