Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
