Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, 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 doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
