Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing 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 administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
