Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
