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 period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 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 H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers 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 construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. 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 Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
