Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers 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 Republican party this period for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $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 missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
