Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
