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

The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently claimed.

According to 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 US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.

In total, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.

Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct 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 missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.

The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.