Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
