🔗 Share this article Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently stated. Based on data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia. The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded. It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data. The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters. Overall, the business sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025. Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions. “You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees. The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.