Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
