Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction 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 restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
