Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
