🔗 Share this article Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated. Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery. The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data. The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists. In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025. Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending 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 entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers. The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.