🔗 Share this article Trump Organization Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025 The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed. Based on data from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics. The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters. Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025. Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks 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 country is coming in, going to invest $10bn 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 isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees. The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.