Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to employ 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, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.