Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
