Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
