Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
