Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
