Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published recently stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.