Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published recently stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers 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 sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
