Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
