Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president 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 implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; 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 presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers 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 invest billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
