Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
