🔗 Share this article Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated. Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia. The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics. The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists. In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year. Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles. “You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, 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 interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees. The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.