🔗 Share this article Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated. According to information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia. The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data. The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists. In total, the business aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year. Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions. “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 jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers. The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.