Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
According to data 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, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president 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 government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
