Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.
Based on 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 Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.
The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
