Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization 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 H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
