Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the business aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked 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 US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
