Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up 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 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers 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 remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
