🔗 Share this article Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed. According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery. The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded. It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data. The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists. In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025. Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles. “You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees. The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.