Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
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, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
