Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025

Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.

According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.

The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.

“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.

The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.