Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
