Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
