Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released recently stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
