Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released recently stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration 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 restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
