Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown 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 tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments 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 nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
