Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
