Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in 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 overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
