Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
