Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought 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 for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
