Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025

The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.

According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.

Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers 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 some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.

The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.