Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in 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 foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
