Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees 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 same, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
