Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
