Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
Overall, the business sought to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.
