Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
