Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers 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 time in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
