Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five 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 wages of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
