Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 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 seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need 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 build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
