Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
