Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization 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.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this week for remarks defending 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 billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
