Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
