Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published recently stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees 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 $10bn to build 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 told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
