Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025

The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.

According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.

The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.

“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.

The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.