🔗 Share this article Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated. According to data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The number of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics. The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration 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 tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists. Overall, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025. Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles. “You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers. The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.