Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $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 doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.