Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
