Trump Business Sought to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles 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 waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, 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 over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.