🔗 Share this article Trump's Organization Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report published recently claimed. Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year 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 waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data. The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists. In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025. Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles. “You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees. The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.