Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
