Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record 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 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
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; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
