Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025

The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released recently stated.

According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.

The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.

Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.

“You can’t just say a country 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 making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.

The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.