Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening 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 millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
