🔗 Share this article Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025 Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released recently stated. Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia. The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data. The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge 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. Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year. Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions. “You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers. The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.