Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
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 record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
