Trump Organization Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
