Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025

The former president’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published recently stated.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.

The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.

“You cannot just say a nation 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 making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.

The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.