Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought 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 winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs 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 skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, 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 “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions 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 producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
