Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.