Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization 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 winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved 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 restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
