Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers 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 a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, 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 isn’t feasible 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 Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
