Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
