Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
