Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration 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 tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t 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 haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
