Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need 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 invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
