Trump Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees 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 creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, 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 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
