Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
