Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to construct 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 defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
