Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity 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 coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed 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 it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
