Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need 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 spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
