Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, 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 necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
