Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance 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 comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
