Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown 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 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
