Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
