🔗 Share this article

Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.

Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The number of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.

The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.

“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.

The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.