Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s family business accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released recently stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.
“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.