Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, 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 concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
