Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed 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 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
