Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions 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 producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
