Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released recently stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration 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 US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
