Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 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 covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
