Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
