Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to build 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 doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
