Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster 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 host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
