Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.