Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought 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 legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people 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 well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
