Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers 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 Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
