Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025

The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published Thursday stated.

According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on available data.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.

In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, 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 particular roles.

“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.

The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.