Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 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 number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review 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 hire 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
