Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles 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 for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, 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 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments 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 coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
