Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring 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 released recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions 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 making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
