Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
