Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; 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 White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
