Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday stated.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown 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 millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
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 his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
