Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.