Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation 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 reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
