Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published recently stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
