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

Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.

Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The number of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review 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 hire 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Notably, 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 occupy certain positions.

“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.

The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.