Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked 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 foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
