Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
