Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge 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 business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend 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 defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
