Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.