Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
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 increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks 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 coming in, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five 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 undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
