Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 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 staff 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 ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
