Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to data 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 former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
