Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown 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 American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.