Trump Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked 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 pay of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
