Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower 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.