Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025

The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.

According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in 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 workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.

In total, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.

“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.

The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.