Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs 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 farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
