Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees 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 covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
