Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, 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, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
