Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed 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 foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
