Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $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 doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
