Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
