Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, a report published Thursday stated.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.
The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.
Overall, the business aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.
“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 have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. 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 refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
