Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
