Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, 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 missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
