Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business 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 applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
