Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
