Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers 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 requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term 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, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 overseas workers 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 criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $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 making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
