Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
