Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers 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 GOP this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.