Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted 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 legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower 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.