Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
