🔗 Share this article Trump Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated. Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery. The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics. The disclosure coincides with 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 activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters. Overall, the Trump Organization sought 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. Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles. “You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees. The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.