Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
