Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025

Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.

According to information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth time in 10 years 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 comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the business aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.

Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.

“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.

The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.