Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis released recently claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
