Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
