Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
