The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, 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 well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
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