Trump Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
