Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
