Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers 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 creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
