Trump Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks 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 nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
