Trump Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a facility, 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 doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
