Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee 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 reporters.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
