Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a facility, 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 isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
