🔗 Share this article Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released recently stated. Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics. The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters. Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025. Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles. “You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in 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 wages of US workers. The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.