Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 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, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.