🔗 Share this article Trump Business Sought to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed. According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia. The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded. It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data. The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists. Overall, the business sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025. Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles. “You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers. The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.