Trump's Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025

The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.

Based on 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 US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees 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 introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.

Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Notably, Trump 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 “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.

“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.

The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.