Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for comments 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 nation is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
