Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
