Trump Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.