Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ 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, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
