Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated.
According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted 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 bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.
