🔗 Share this article Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025 The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday claimed. Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics. The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists. In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025. Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions. “You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees. The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.