Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report published recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. 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 declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
