Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.
According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.
The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
