Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis released recently stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, 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 well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
