The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
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