🔗 Share this article Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025 Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released recently stated. Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded. It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics. The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters. In total, the Trump Organization sought 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 certain in the GOP this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions. “You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers. The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.