Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers 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 seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
