Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity 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 invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
