Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 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 criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
