Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
