Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025

Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.

According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.

The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term 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 cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.

The White House refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.