Trump Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build 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 defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
