Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
