Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025

Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.

According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.

“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.

The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.

Anthony Washington
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