Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought 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 period for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
