Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025

The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.

According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.

The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.

“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after she suggested 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 request for information.