Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
