Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted 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 bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers 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 invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
