Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published recently stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“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 five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
