Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 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 covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
