Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published recently stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 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 questioned by certain in the GOP this week for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
