Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers 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 spend billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” 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 immediately respond to an request for information.
