Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed 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 White House refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
