Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.
According to data 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, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people 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 interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
