Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025

Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.

According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year 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 staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.

The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.

“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.

The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.