Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
