Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 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 number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars 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 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
