Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees 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 instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
