Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
