Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his government 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 sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.