Trump Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies 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 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
