Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
