Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment 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 published Thursday stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
