Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
