The Trump Organization requested 184 foreign workers to work across various company properties, a record number that has increased over the years.
The company sought to hire workers through H-2A and H-2B visas for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, two golf clubs and at Trump Vineyard Estates in Charlottesville, Va., according to data from the Department of Labor.
Over the course of Trump’s first term and the first nine months of his second term, the Trump Organization’s visa requests increased from 121 in 2021 to 184 in 2025, according to Forbes. Overall, the company has filed to hire 566 foreign laborers to work as servers, farm workers, kitchen staff, clerks and housekeepers, primarily.
For the H-2A and H-2B visa programs, businesses need the Department of Labor’s approval before petitioning the Department of Homeland Security. After that, the Department of State issues the visas.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump Organization and the White House for comment.
Trump previously defended bringing in foreign workers on visas on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday. He argued that the U.S. does not have enough people with “certain talents” to do particular jobs.
After Ingraham said that bringing in thousands of foreign workers would hurt efforts to raise wages, Trump agreed but added, “You also do have to bring in talent.”
“You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, ‘I’m going to put you into a factory where we’re going to make missiles,’” he later said in the interview.
Following Trump’s interview, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) appeared to criticize the president’s remarks.
“I am solidly against you being replaced by foreign labor, like with H1Bs,” she wrote in a post on the social media platform X.
The H-1B visa program, created in 1990, allows employers to hire foreign workers in certain specialty occupations.
In September, Trump signed a proclamation to raise H-1B visa fees to $100,000 to encourage companies to hire American workers instead. The fee does not apply to anyone who currently has a visa.
