Trump's Organization Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025

Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published recently stated.

According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought 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 for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the business sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.

Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.

“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.

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