Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, 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 sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“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 unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
