Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 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 some in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
