Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 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, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million 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 the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, 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 “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
