Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.
According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five 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 lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.
