Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025

Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.

According to data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period 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 Republican party this period for comments defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.

“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.

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