Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
