🔗 Share this article Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed. Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data. The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists. Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025. Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions. “You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers. The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.