Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain 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 can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest 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 making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
