Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
