Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
