🔗 Share this article Trump Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed. According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery. The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data. The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists. Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year. Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions. “You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers. The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.