Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 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 over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
