🔗 Share this article Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated. According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia. The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded. It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics. The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters. In total, the business sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president 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 remarks justifying the necessity 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 billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees. The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.