Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
