Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 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 questioned by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“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 years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
