Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
