Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025

The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published recently stated.

According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.

Overall, the Trump Organization 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, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.

“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of US workers.

The White House refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.