Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
