Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity 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 billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
