Trump Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration 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 the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build 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 host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
