Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
