Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
