Trump's Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
