Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees 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 plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
