Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025
The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 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 for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had attempted to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.
The administration refused a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
