Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
