Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report released recently stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
