Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in 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 foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
