Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.