Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles 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 waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
