Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
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 his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
