Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
