Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 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 bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
