Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
