Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday claimed.
According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge 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 business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
