🔗 Share this article Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025 The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released recently claimed. Based on information 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 Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia. The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded. It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data. The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists. In total, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025. Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles. “You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers. The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.