Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, 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 doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
