Trump Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved 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 tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
