Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers 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 H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers 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 instance in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this week for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
