Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published recently stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
