Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, 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 stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
