🔗 Share this article Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report released recently claimed. Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, 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; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists. In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025. Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles. “You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn 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 making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers. The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.