Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president 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 defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn 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 isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
