Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation 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 international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
