Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions 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 missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
