Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period 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 comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
