Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought 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, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, 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 effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
