Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, 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 Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump 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 company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster 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 she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
