Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, 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 Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending 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 spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
