Trump Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
