Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny 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 aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation 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 effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
