Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
