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

The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday claimed.

According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.

The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.

Overall, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this week for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.

“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.

The administration refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.