Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
