Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers 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 businesses attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, 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 stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
