The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct 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 defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
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