Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released recently stated.
According to 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 Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws 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 restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn 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 producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.