Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
