Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025

The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.

According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation 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 hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.

Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.

“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.

The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.

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