🔗 Share this article Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated. According to information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery. The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics. The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters. Overall, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025. Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions. “You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers. The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.