Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
