Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.
The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
