🔗 Share this article Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently stated. Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded. It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data. The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters. In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year. Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions. “You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers. The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.