Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests 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 over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
