Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on 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 former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend 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 producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
