Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
