Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions 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 producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
