Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.
Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
