Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire 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 winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to 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; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned 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 occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
