Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire 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 H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
