Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
