Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025

The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.

Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.

The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.

Overall, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.

“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build 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 told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.

The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.