Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, 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, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
