Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025

Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, 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 seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.

The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.

“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.

The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.