Trump Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees 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 applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
