Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct 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 missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
