Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government 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 US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.